[mythtvnz] Problem with desktop extending beyond screen edge

[Nick Rout]

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Ross and Jemima Knudsen
<ross.jemima at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tortise wrote:
>>
>> If using a recent enough NVIDIA version you can check out the slider "Overscan Compensation" as found in NVIDIA X server setting
>> under GPU0 and probably CRT-1....  its a fair bet your answer lies there.  Let us know if this is the answer and what you think of
>> the monitor?
>>
> That worked like a charm!!!  Now I can see my beloved taskbar.  I ended
> up tweaking that slider to 100 and it seems to fit correctly.
> Interesting it works out to be a nice round number.  Makes me think that
> something else is going wrong somewhere.
>
> Jean-Francois Pirus wrote:
>> It's a TV problem, most TV will chop the edges of to get rid of noise
> at the
>> edges, not very usefull with 1080p signals...
>>
>> Hopefully your TV will have a setting like "Just Scan", it should be
> where
>> you specify 4:3 or 16:9 and "some other weird name" to just display the
>> actual pixels.
>
> I wondered the same thing.  The only settings I can seem to access from
> the TV menu say "scale mode" which can be set to a number of settings
> but even on the "full" setting it was cutting off the edges.  Note also
> that when I connected my laptop up it didn't cut anything off.  Oh well
> its fixed as noted above for the moment.

no mention of konka on this wiki http://pixelmapping.wikispaces.com/

but it can be a useful resource