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From: Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku <jigme.datse@×××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"...
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 22:43:02
Message-Id: 588de36a-865d-9929-573d-4775b7f0b40e@datsemultimedia.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"... by Grant Edwards
1 Thank you everyone. It now seems to be working. Not sure if the setting is a per input setting or not, but the main issue was the one input from the computer.
2
3 On 2016-10-19 12:11, Grant Edwards wrote:
4 > On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
5 > > On 10/18/2016 08:57 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
6 > >> On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:
7 > >>
8 > >>> I have three different manufacturers and each one has it, but on mine it
9 > >>> wasn't marked in the manual.
10 > >>
11 > >> Not all TVs can disable overscan. The last time was shopping, many of
12 > >> the Sony Bravias couldn't (that was a few years ago). On some TVs
13 > >> I've seen, in order to disable overscan the signal resolution has to
14 > >> match the panel resolution exactly...
15 > >>
16 > >
17 > > Yeah, I understand about the Sony TVs. A friend bought one in 2012/2013
18 > > and we even emailed Sony and their reply was it can't be done.
19 > >
20 > > Until I found an option under Setup called Screen or Screen Display, and
21 > > set it to Full Pixel. That disabled the overscan.
22 >
23 > Several other brands also have some odd, trademarked, phrase for the
24 > "disable overscan" feature, so keep an eye out for display modes with
25 > odd names invented by a marketting person who never quite understood
26 > what that mode actually does.
27 >
28 > If you ask about your model in some of the home-theater forums,
29 > somebody usually knows. But, you've got to wade through those awful
30 > web-UI based "forums"...
31 >
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