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jdubya
 Post subject: Displaying in Widescreen
PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 1:30 am 
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I have a NVIDIA card with DVI output running to my widescreen tv. I have the drivers installed for the card although it displays outside the tv. Not only does it scale wrong it appears very grainy.

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cesman
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Perhaps press 'W' to cycle thru the display options may yield results.

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jdubya
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cesman wrote:
Perhaps press 'W' to cycle thru the display options may yield results.
That doesn't help. It does it when it runs in X also.
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it's probably a matter of getting the right modelines. search the mythtv mailing list, I know they've had several discussions on this subject.
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Well I did some searching but I'm still kinda confused.... what would I do to the XF86Config with this information?

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I believe that, with the current code in CVS, you can accomplish what
you want to do (minus the current bug involving already-anamorphic
source material) by setting your display size to 16:9 in the XF86Config
file -- add "DisplaySize 375 210" (or some other measurement that's
16:9, in millimeters) to the "Monitor" section. Note that the actual
size of the screen was not appropriate in my case, as it made the fonts
much too small.

I have dug around and found the following modelines

Modeline "480p" 27.028 720 738 802 858 480 487 494 525 -hsync -vsync


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cesman
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I think reading the Linux HTPC will help to get you what you desire.
http://www.sllug.org/how-to/linux-htpc/introduction.html

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cesman wrote:
I think reading the Linux HTPC will help to get you what you desire.
http://www.sllug.org/how-to/linux-htpc/introduction.html
Hmm nothing changed after adding a Widescreen modeline, possibly the fact that when i boot the computer it gives me an error about passing an bad resolution or something and it ends up booting in 640x480 could be the problem?

Hmmmm
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As I don't run widescreen, I don't know. Did you read the How-To? It has info on HDTV and modelines...

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cesman wrote:
As I don't run widescreen, I don't know. Did you read the How-To? It has info on HDTV and modelines...
Yeah I did and I added new modelines and it wouldn't change from 640x480.
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