<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 18/09/2009, at 6:40 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:25:37 +1200, you wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I am hoping someone can help me through this...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am running Ubntu jaunty with a nvidia 9500 GT connecting to a CRT TV<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">using S-Video.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">When I boot ubuntu I only get part of my desktop on the TV. The<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">centre, and I am missing the top and left of the desktop.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">How can I change me xorg.conf to tell X to use a custom resolution (if<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">that is what I need to to) and to offset my output to the left and up?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If I boot windows XP I get a full 1024x768 desktop on the CRT.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Cheers,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Stuart.<br></blockquote><br>X configs are a bit complicated if you need to customise them. We<br>need a bit more information. First, are you using the accelerated<br>Nvidia drivers for your card (and if so what version), or the open<br>source nv drivers, or even the Vesa drivers? Second, what is your<br>current /etc/X11/xorg.conf file? Have you modified it at all?<br><br>Below is the XF86Config-4 file I used to use with my old CRT TV and<br>S-Video under KnoppMyth. It should be similar to what you want for<br>your xorg.conf file for TV output, but TV output is 720x576 - it would<br>need to be adjusted to do 1024x768. I am not sure if an old CRT will<br>do 1024x768 anyway - I would have thought that resolution was a bit<br>more than it could cope with and even if it worked, everything would<br>be too small and fuzzy.<br><br>Also, an 9500 GT card will do VDPAU acceleration and for that you need<br>to be using Nvidia driver version 180 (reasonably stable) or above<br>(reportedly less stable, but I have not tried 185 or 190).<br><br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Excuse the edit ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Yeah the usual culprit is overscan or not setting the best resolution for analogue.</div><div><br></div><div>So for anyone still using Composite or SVIdeo are you using a native PAL resolution or using 800x600 or 1024x768</div><div><br></div><div>For myPVR we went with 720x576 flagged as 4:3 which generally provided the best picture quality for naive pal broadcasts.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Steven Ellis - Technical Director<br>OpenMedia Limited<br>email - <a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a><br>website - <a href="http://www.openmedia.co.nz/">http://www.openmedia.co.nz</a><br></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>