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Old 05-05-2004, 07:23 AM   #1
peman
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nVidia TV-out


Hi
I have a stupid problem!
I have Mandrake 9.2, TNT2 card and nVidia installed. I have also installed NVTV. Everythings working except that the picture on the TV is zoomed in a lot! I have tried different resolutions but they are all still zoomed in so i cant see for example the startmeny and the panel at the bottom. This is very irritating and enoying!!!

What can i do about it???

I mean the picture on the TV-screen is fine except i dont want to look on movies that is zoomed in or scaled!!! Please, i really need help with this!
 
Old 05-05-2004, 09:56 AM   #2
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Read the nVidia readme and learn to set up lots and lots and lots of metamodes The more you have, the more chances of your card finding a decent resolution for the tv.
 
Old 05-05-2004, 10:24 AM   #3
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i have tried the resolutions i have in Windowx XP (In Windows XP everything works just fine) to see if the problems gonna be solved but ok i have to enter more resolutions then, but will it fix the zooming problem???
 
Old 05-05-2004, 05:02 PM   #4
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Its not zooming, its setting up a virtual resolution. Your screen resolution is higher than your display resolution. It means you don't have enough/proper metamodes for the display to do a native resolution.
 
Old 05-12-2004, 06:23 AM   #5
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Overscan bitches.
In your Screen section of XF86config-4 you can add an option for Overscan to shrink or expand the display size on the TV. Read the nvidia readme for the syntax.
 
  


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