[mythtvnz] LCD TV recommendations (VGA input)

[Robin Gilks]

Well, the Tosh has gone back and I'm now the proud owner of a 40" Sony!!

I changed one line in my xorg.conf file to change over from s-video to VGA
(ActiveDevice "CRT" - was "TV") and is probed the TV and came up in
1360x768 so I'm a very happy bunny. This is on an Epia SP13000 so no fancy
nvidia bits anywhere, just the openchrome driver!

I'd be even happier if I could get the dpms line in my power on/off script
to work!!

If I run the script from a telnet session its OK, if I run it from an
xterm in the same X session as MythTV it runs OK but if the script is run
by irexec (as a result of me pressing the Power button on the remote) it
doesn't seem to do anything.

I guess this is something to do with irexec being run as a service and
hence run by root so something is missing from the environment but even
putting the '-display' option into the xset command as "xset -display :0
dpms force off" I don't get anywhere. I've also tried exporting the
DISPLAY variable at the start of the shell script and I've tried is in
short and long form (i.e. as :0 and as hostname:0).

At least I'm getting my moneys worth on the picture quality :-)


>
>> I've just been caught by the specification trap - the Toshiba 37A3500
>> has
>> a 1368x768 display and supports 720p and 1080i. What the spec doesn't
>> say
>> is that you can't get these through the PC (VGA) port which only
>> supports
>> 5:4 modes of VGA, SVGA and XGA resolutions. HDMI is NOT an option at the
>> moment - the existing frontend has work for a while longer!!
>
>
> I've got a 32" Toshiba 1366x768 panel working at home. Can't remember the
> model off the top of my head, but its a couple of years old.
>
> Its connected via VGA and I think (been a while) I got it running at panel
> res. Will check if you like and send you the modelines if you are
> interested.
>
> Cheers,
> Roger
>
>


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