[mythtvnz] Headaches with .gnomerc and .initrc in Ubuntu

[Jason Taylor]

I'm pretty sure nvidia overscan can be set in the xorg.conf... I'm
also pretty sure the nvidia-settings will do this for you if you run
it with sudo privileges.

If you have an older nvidia card you can try nvtv

Jason Taylor

2008/4/7 Matt Poff <matt.poff at headfirst.co.nz>:
> Hey all, I've got into trouble altering some init settings on my Myth
>  box in order to get NVIDIA overscan settings to stick. Since upgrading
>  to Ubuntu Gutsy I've noticed a lot of cut-off around the edges of my
>  desktop on my CRT TV display. Not sure why this has only become a
>  problem now but after extensive Googling I fixed it by scaling back the
>  Overscan settings in the nvidia-settings GUI app.
>
>  In order to get these settings to stick, it was recommended to add the
>  following lines to .initrc in the Myth users home directory:
>
>  #!/usr/bin/env bash
>  /usr/bin/nvidia-settings -l &
>  exec gnome-session
>
>  ... and create a symlink with the .xsession file in the same directory
>
>  ln -s ~/.xinitrc ~/.xsession
>
>
>  I did this and it worked but it also kills my Myth startup commands
>  stored in .gnomerc. These take care of starting MythWelcome and look
>  like this:
>
>  sleep 20
>  exec mythwelcome
>  exec /usr/bin/mtd --daemon
>  mythfrontend stop
>
>
>  Basically, with the initrc commands enabled, the autostart of Myth
>  doesn't. Moving these commands into the tail of the initrc file just
>  kills the login process.
>
>  What's the best approach to get these working? As I understand it, the
>  NVIDIA settings loading has to happen before the window manager init
>  scripts run but why is this killing the .gnomerc script?
>
>  Grateful for any tips here.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Matt
>
>
>
>
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