[mythtvnz] X is shifted to the left - best way to fix?

[Tim Boobyer]

On 5/26/08, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Jason Taylor <killerkiwi2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Isn't there a new screen setup UI in mythfront end in which you can
>  > adjust the position?
>  >
>  > I usually use nvtv to correct overscan and then the mythfrontend
>  > wizard UI to fit the image nicely
>  >
>  > http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Screen_size_setting_wizard
>  >
>  > But then I still have an old CRT ;)
>  >
>  > Jason Taylor
>
>
> Ahh yes I meant to say I have tried that. All it seems to do is move
>  the frontend sceeens around "inside" the xorg root window, but what I
>  need to do is move the xorg root window to the right about 40 pixels.
>
>  Having now managed to ssh into the machine I can report that
>
>  1. xorg is running at 1280x768
>
>  2. video chipset id intel 82865G
>
>  3. xorg.conf is very minimal and therefore everything appears to be
>  auto detected. No modelines or anything.
>
>  So from some online reading it is possible to adjust left/right offset
>  via tweaking the modeline, but without a modeline to start with, how
>  do I tweak it?

xvidtune will let you move it about a bit, then give you a modeline to
put in your xorg.conf