Sorry I had to step away for a while but now I am back.

I used nvidia-settings and did not see any settings for modeline stuff. Just gamma correction, saturation, etc. My SDTV does not appear to have any way to set my screen height and width like I am used to doing with monitors. When I use the menu where the subsystems are circles, they are wider than they are high. So that is why I was asking about how to adjust the modelines. In XF86Free there was a utility called xf86setup or maybe xf86config. Does Xorg have a similar utility? Also, I have looked several times in R5F27 for the checkbox to turn off the mouse cursor. I remember it being somewhere in previous versions.

Please feel free to tell me to RTFM, just tell me what the M (wiki) is.

Thanks

Not sure what Hardware you are using.
I have a range of Nvidia based cards from a 5200 to a 6200 and all of them definitely had a size setting represented in the Nvidia-Settings.

I am using the Nvidia drivers that are installed with KM R5F27.

Can't recall exactly which screen/tab it was on, but it is there kind of looks like a Slider bar although you can also insert the numbers in the Box. This to me seems like the Course adjustment.

There is also a location in the Utilities/Setup for Knoppmyth to adjust screen size and also shift your display horizontal and vertical. I found this was great for fine tuning once I had Nvidia Settings pretty close.

hth

bigbro,

Back there somewhere I mentioned I now have an FX5200. I am also (presumably) using the default nvidia driver as I have not done any of the gyrations with getting the old driver from another version and force a rollback.

I will look again but I did not see anything indicating a size adjustment. Is there an option I missed?

OK, I just called a timeout and looked again:

When I type nvidia-settings after invoking alt-x from my X console I see the information screen which tells me my card is a GeForce FX 5200 w/ 128MB NVIDIA Driver Version: 1.0-9631. All other items in the scroll list have anything related to width or height or offset of the screen.

When I went into Utilities/Setuo I saw what you where talking about and started fumbling around. I violated the first rule of screwing with computers and now I have things totally screwed up. Is there a way short of doing an auto-upgrade to get my "appearance" settings back to a default setup?

On returning to where you started, you might try resetting those settings to 0 or even changing a couple of the other settings in there, enabling OpenGL or disabling, etc. And then putting them back. To my knowledge there is nothing you can do in there that would force you to need to reinstall even via autoupgrade.

You could A) restart and see if that fixes the TV
You can B) rerun the Update on the video drivers. I haven't had to even when I burnt down an MX4000 and changed it for an FX5200.

Remember there are two sets of settings for the Display in Utilities/Setup. One controls Window Size when you use a GUI. Those are in Appearance.

The second set, are in TV Settings > Playback I use those, because I don't run a windowed GUI for playback. I noticed that if I had to adjust these too far the colors would be off and the picture not as nice. Hence I used Nvidia Settings to get it close then adjusted these to "Fine Tune" the display.

on the Nvidia Settings , mine is near the bottom of the list.

Display Device
TV 0
Then in there is the Overscan, Hue, etc. Overscan is what you want.
You don't mention the type of TV but it sound like essentially you are using an SD TV or have limited adjustment i.e. Early ED TV or even early HD,
Anyway, Overscan or Even "Underscan" is what you want to adjust. On all of my SD TV's the setting varies but moving the Overscan slider bar will change the size of the display within the viewable area.

I am using the 9755 driver. but as I remember the nvidia settings have essentially looked the same through all I have used from 6xxx something to this set.

Not sure what you are seeing on screen, I can try to snap some of my setup screens and put them in here somewhere or describe them to you.

OK, I did a restore from the backup I did last night. Other than minor cleanups with the DB I am back to where I started. Soooo, where can I get more details about how to adjust Utilities/Setup -> Setup -> Appearance to get the bleeping tv setup right.

OH, BTW, after going through the setup multiple times, I finally found the mouse cursor toggle

Notice I posted just before yours. I've looked around for explanations of the various settings in the frontend, no luck so far.. I'll post back.

Utilities/Setup
General > Database settings

Appearance > Themes- you chose;
Screen Settings - GUI Playback (mine are all 0), mouse, etc;
Video modes - Gui and TV, (mine unselected); Localization - How you like to see date, time expressed;
QT - Screen font sizes and how the popups react to you;
LCD Device display - not selected (I believe it is for an LCD interface on your case)???

TV Settings > Playback -
General - preferences vary on your hardware, I unslect Deinterlace, other options are for performance;
General 2 - again preferences for your hardware; New Recordings - How you prefer to handle new recordings;
New Recordings(Groups) - how you choose to display all those recorded shows;
Hardware decoding - For PVR 350; Seeking - Settings for when you are watching shifting around in recordings;
Commercial Skip - Settings for Commercial Skip stuff;
Overscan - This is what I call the "Fine Tune" section for display. They go plus and minus I have 1, 2, 0, 0;
OSD Display - OSD Display settings (I dont use it per say)

There is more but I wanted to get those to you.

Thanks for the specifics!