Okay, another odd question. I have recently inherited a 65in' TV (w00t!) however, my roommates refuse to get cable. Soo, when I founda VGA connector on the back of said big friggin' TV, I set about hooking up my system with Bittorrent to pipe in some decent UK television.

Anyways, the issue I'm running into on my PowerPC (only have Macs to work with, I'm 'fraid) is that when I get booted in, Xorg seems to be rendering the image off the edges of the screen. So, easy, I think, and I pop out xvidtune to realign the screen. However, the bloody TV starts to lose sync when the edges of the rendered area approach the edges of the actual screen.

Crap.

So, my question is this: is there any way to "pad" the rendering area that X uses? For example, is there a way to render the screen at the size it's being rendered (because it syncs beautifully when it's rendering past the TV's edge) but render the actual *image* some 10% inwards from the outer edge?

I'm a web designer, so I'm seriously just wishing I could find a damn file somewhere and write "xorg {padding:10px}"

Any ideas?

yea, getta 10" tv screen insted =:]

seriously tho-- we're all tooo jelouse to help ya!!

lol,.. does this problem start before x gets loaded?

there are certain settings for tv usage as a monitor.. are you using them?

update2date drivers and up2date X installed?

i know, just some basics you already covered, but i wanted to subscribe to this thread.. and i feel guilty 'just doing that'.. so i bluff my way into the conversation

good luck man!!

Seriously, mate, thanks for all the help, regardless; I'm a bit of a n00b, and Gentoo's not the nicest distro to start out on (yeah, tried Ubuntu for a week, but I prefer full-on hand-to-hand combat with my systems).

Okay, before X gets loaded, this issue pops up, so it's not too much of an X issue, I think, however, it's rendering closer to the actual screen edges and showing major distortion. The screen bows outward, getting worse towards the edge, and the colours actually split near the edges.

X is actually a drastic improvement over the terminal as it renders off the edge and therefore eschews the crappy bowing issues.

I don't know any of the X settings for monitors, I'm afraid, and I'd love to try them out, but I'm wondering how that will jive with my system being attached to the TV via a VGA connector (as opposed to S-Video or RCA).

No clue what update2date drivers/X are, but I'll try emerge-ing them once I get back to the system. I'm going to wager they update my drivers. But I could be wrong.

well it's good that your cautious about changing your settings-- because you can damage your monitor (tv) if you put something too extreme in the settings.

it definitly sounds like a driver issue... although it's possible (i don't know for sure tho) that X can be configured for this.

yes your correct about me meaning that your X and drivers, need to be up to date.. i mean, it wouldn't hurt (unless someone tells you otherwise).

i'd look into the tv manufactures specs too (on their web site maybe) and see what they say about doing this.

maybe they have some special drivers.

also review X's info on this (i'm sorry, i'm not versed with using 64" tv as monitors in X).

and just for the heck of it pop in a livecd of some kind.. knoppix probably won't help on this...except maybe MythKnoppix might.

and also try some other multimedia centric one like suse, mandy, or better yet look on http://www.distrowatch.org for a list of specialized os's for multimedia..and just try some to see if any of them help.

again, sorry for the 1/2 arsed ideas.. but hey, i gotta earn my keep here somehow!!

anyway good to hear you haven't 'fallin into the screen' yet or gave it a bloody beating