[Openchrome-users] S-video CRT TV-OUT modes not resambling monitor size

[Ivor Hewitt]

Yeah as Anders says this is by design, that's overscan.
There was some preliminary work done a while ago to make the overscan configurable, but it never got into a useful/usable state.

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 01:10:29AM +0200, Francesco Lotti wrote:
> Hello.
> I am using version 0.2.904 svn 853 with openchrome-revert_tvout_fixes_part_2.patch
> applied on a CLE266. (VIA M12000 mini-itx running ubuntu karmic)
> 
> I am not able to use 720x576Noscale at its best with TvOut (S-Video) hooked to an old CRT TV
> (PAL) because the upper,lower,right and left parts of the screen fall outside the monitor for 
> roughly 40 lines each. Also 720x576Over behaves the same.
> Other modes like 720x576 and 1024x768 "suffer" from the opposite problem,
> leaving some black space around the screen resulting in a smaller usable area.
> 
> 
> Same behavior with older 0.2.903 release.
> 
> Any clues ?
> 
> 
> 
> --
> ciao
> goo
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