Hello all,

I am in the process of setting up mythtv and so far things have gone well.

Now, I am to the point of connecting the system to my LCD TV, Olevia LT37HVS via the built in VGA port on the TV. The Olevia docs (syntaxgroups.com) say that the TV has 1360x768@60hz for PC resolution.

When I use the built in video controller (Intel Corporation 82845G/GL, Intel 845 MB) and boot into runlevel 3, the output on the tv is outstanding quality but shifted to the left (left edge text cut off) and there is a blank bar on the right. I would guess that the equivilant of about 8-9 characters are cut off on the left with the same amount blank on the right.

When I startx, I get kde but the same is true (left is missing, right has blank bar) regardless of the resolution. The only difference is that at higher resolutions, the amount cut off and the size of the bar on the right is smaller and smaller.

I cannot help but believe that if I can fix the problem in runlevel 3 it will carry over to runlevel 5.

Here are my question.

Should I continue to bloody my head trying to get the built in intel video working?

Or, should I cut my losses now and get a video card (fx5200) that has DVI out and use the HDMI input on my TV?

Any recommends on a pci fx5200 based card?

I do not want to invest in the card only to find I have the same problem.

I have attached some output/log files as per request.

lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
01:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 81)

uname -r

2.6.16-1.2108_FC4
I got to this kernel with yum upgrade

Whats in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

Brian1

Got a similar Olevia TV......look at my thread.....A lot of people seem to be having these sort of problems.