Resolution upgrade
I've been running 960x540p for a long time. It is a nice resolution, but HDTV is true 1920x1080i resolution.
So, I decided to try it again (failed previously). I decide to pull out the big guns and use
Powerstrip
to find the right settings. I must say that Powerstrip
rocks. I followed
Mark Rejhon' excellent guide to detect the right modes
on Windows (brought another box down) and it even gives you the XF86
Modelines for what you're doing.
So, I copied all the modelines over to my front-end... and it didn't work. This is what I got:
It's supposed to look like this...
It's supposed to look like this...
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It looks like this....
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The whole image is scrolled around.
After hours and various incarnations of configuration, including using
the exact same card in my Windows 2000 box, I still had no
progress. Until now. I just found a post that says that
this is a known issue with "newer versions" of nVidia drivers and only
happens in 1080i modes. That makes me want to kill somebody :)
So, now I'm going to try downgrading my drivers and see if I can find one that won't exhibit this issue.
T
Update: I downgraded to 1.0.6629 and it works like a
charm. I had to go back to Windows one more time to tweak, but
it's working now. SWEET!
Update 2: Well, trying to change video modes to "Zoom", which is
trying to take a 4:3 recording with a 16:9 letterboxed image to full
screen, the bottom 1/6 or so of the screen flickers too much to
watch. This is annoying
Update 3:
Here's my XF86Config file