[mythtv-users] Help with mode lines

[Greg Oliver]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:03 PM, John Nissley <jnissley at nissley.org> wrote:
> I know there is a big write up about how to do this but I just can not seem
> to get things to work and was hoping some one could give me something to
> try.
>
> I have an HDTV with a few hdmi ports.  I have a 9500 GT nvidia card and am
> using a DVI to HDMI cable to connect to the TV.  I have serious over scan
> that I have fixed for the most part with customer setting in the appearance
> section of the set up menus.  This works but is not really what I want.  I
> got the EDID information when X starts up and created a customer xorg.conf
> file but it did not seem to make any difference.

You have to tell nvidia-settings to not use GPU scaling, or it will
always use EDID and scale it up to whatever the monitor/tv says it can
do..

-Greg



> Here is a copy of my xorg.conf file
> # Xorg configuration created by livna-config-display
>
> Section "Files"
>       ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
>       ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>       Option      "AIGLX" "on"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>       Identifier  "Panasonic"
>       VendorName  "Panasonic"
>       ModelName   "Unknown"
>       HorizSync   15.0 - 68.0
>       VertRefresh 23.0 - 61.0
>       Option      "ExactModeTimingsDVI" "True"
>       Option      "dpms"
>       Modeline    "mytest" 148.50 1920 2208 2052 2400 1080 1084 1089 1125
> +hsync +vsync
>       #Modeline    "mytest" 148.50 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125
> +hsync +vsync
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>       Identifier  "Videocard0"
>       Driver      "nvidia"
>       Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
>       Option      "XvmcUsesTextures" "false"
>       Option      "UseEvents" "true"
>       Option      "UseIDID" "false"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>       Identifier  "Default Screen"
>       Device      "Videocard0"
>       Monitor     "Panasonic"
>       Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
>       DefaultDepth 24
>       SubSection  "Display"
>         ViewPort  0 0
>         Depth     24
>         Modes     "mytest"
>       EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Extensions"
>       Option      "Composite" "Disable"
> EndSection
>
> Please show me the error of my ways
>
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