I have searched for this but un-able to find an answer:

My TV output fits normally on the screen, so does mythfrontend. But when I start to go into the screen to config something(i.e, Myth's Apperance) , the res is too big and the screen is cutoff aorund the edges.

I have fiddled with the GUI sizing no no avail. Here is a excerpt from my X config:


Section "Monitor"
Identifier "NTSC Monitor"
HorizSync 30-68
VertRefresh 50-120
Mode "720x480"
# D: 34.563 MHz, H: 37.244 kHz, V: 73.897 Hz
DotClock 34.564
HTimings 720 752 840 928
VTimings 480 484 488 504
Flags "-HSync" "-VSync"
EndMode
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
#Driver "fbdev"
Driver "ivtvdev"
### change fb1 to whatever number you got in the previous section
#Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1"
Option "ivtvdev" "/dev/fb1"
### change the busid to whatever is reported by lspci. Note that
### output of lspci is hex, so add a preceding "0x" to the BusID
#BusID "0:0x08:0"
BusID "PCI:2:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "TV Screen"
Device "Hauppauge PVR 350 iTVC15 Framebuffer"
Monitor "NTSC Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
DefaultFbbpp 32
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
FbBpp 32
Modes "720x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection


I changed the "Mode" to 480x480 at one point but that didnt help. TIA.

Oh Sorry.. I am running V4R5 with a PVR 350(with X and frontend using the PVR's output).

Check your X logs (in /var/log/XFree86.0.log) and see if you have a virtual screen size configured that's bigger than the actual display size.

BTW - Which screen(s) are you having problems with? The desktop? The menu system? TV playback? Something under setup? There is an option to use different sizes for the GUI and watching TV down in the setup stuff (under genral?) but if you can't see it because it's off the screen that's not much help...

One of the other PVR-350 users might be able to provide more help...

no Virt. screens.

If I watch TV everything is good< no cutoffs

mythfrontend..main screens, i.e Watch TV, Watch Recordings are good also

But when I go into anything that is not a "main" menu text is cut-off.
i.e, I go into Watch Recording and it shows my list of shows. the screen is a bit big. I will try to check more menus and see which are cutoff and post them

I think you always have a virtual screen size in X (at least with any drivers I've ever used) it's usually (but not always) the same as you actual size. It's also not quite the same as multiple virtual screens/desktops. Just to be sure try this:


As for the menus, the way they're set up keps them away from the edges of the screen, so you may not be able to tell how much of the screen is hidden from you. This is especially true if what is hidden is on the sides and you're using a theme that keeps them near the middle like "iulian". Not all of a 720-480 display fits on a TV screen, since no more than 640 of that is visible....

my guess would be he's using the pvr350 output, I havent' seen anyone use 720x480 on any other device. And sorry, but I really don't have any experiance with the pvr350 out.

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Xsecrets

I was assuming you meant Virt. screen size where your "screen" is bigger than your actual real monitor res, where the desktop "rolls" around to show the res of the screen. Below is the output of your command:



(--) IVTVDEV(0): Virtual size is 720x480 (pitch 720)

My question is, where should the setting be that I need to fiddle with? X config files or mythtv??

As stated before TV watching(and recorded show) are not cut-off. And only some of the myth screens are cut-off.

The broadcast picture is designed to only have part of it show so that's not really an indicator, also the PVR-350 probably does something different for that than for the X displays. You're also not being terribly specific about which screens your seeing cut off. When you use the program guide while watching TV is that cut off? Is it along the lines of menus are fine but anything with text entry fields or listings is screwy?

damn...ok..
1st screen(with watch tv, media library, etc) = not cut off
if i go into media library = cut off, around the edges...
if i go into utils/setup~>Setup~>TV Settings~>playback or recoding profiles = cut off...

all the cut off screens i can see most of the menus, words, but the buttons that say next and back or cancel are mostly gone..

anyways if no one else see's this problem..thanks anyways.

I get this problem as well, so you not alone.

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Girkers

That is about exactly what I expected. Lots of "whitespace" around the ones you see "all" of. Anything near the edges of the screen is gone "somewhere over the rainbow". There are enough people using the PVR-350 that I'm pretty sure that there is a solution. Hang on while I go in the other room and double check the setup screens....

Yep. Obvious if you look for it (and can see it!). From the main menu go to:

Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> Appearance -> 2rd screen

This lets you use a smaller size for the GUI with an offset from the screen edges. The third screen may or may not be useful too, I just don't have the knowledge of the PVR-350.

OBTW - You can probably find the right entries in the settings table if the Appearance screens are completely unusable...

I don't use a PVR-350, but when I get the chance I will look into the screens you mention and see if they help me out.

thanks.

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