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

[Steven Ellis]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 12:02 pm, Tim Boobyer wrote:
> 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

What EDID information are you getting back from the screen? Try

startx -- -logverbose 6

and take a look at the reported resolutions.

It sounds like your screen has a lot of overscan when presented with a
720p image.

Also make sure you are sending 720p50 and not 720p60.

Steve


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