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Author:  dramatools [ Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:08 pm ]
Post subject:  XFree not filling up widescreen monitor
I'm using a Westinghouse 19w3 LCD TV through its D-sub input (WSXGA+ 1440x900 resolution) and while XFree uses a 1440x900 modeline (provided by http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines), there are 20-30 pixel wide black stripes on either side of the display. This is a 16:10 display as opposed to the more common 16:9 wide screens.

I'm driving the display with a PNY Verto GeForce FX 5500-based AGP adapter with 128 Mb RAM using the KnoppMyth-provided nVidia drivers.

Here are the pertinent parts of XF86Config-4:

Code:
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Monitor0"
        Option  "DPMS"  "true"
        DisplaySize  410        260
#       HorizSync    28.0 - 78.0 # Warning: This may fry very old Monitors
        HorizSync    28.0 - 96.0 # Warning: This may fry old Monitors
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0 # Very conservative. May flicker.
#       VertRefresh  50.0 - 62.0 # Extreme conservative. Will flicker. TFT default.

[...]
        # 16:10 LCD TV
  ModeLine "1440x900" 113.73 1440 1512 1864 2008 900 903 916 944 #60Hz
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
# sw_cursor is needed for some ati and radeon cards
        #Option     "sw_cursor"
        #Option     "hw_cursor"
        #Option     "NoAccel"
        #Option     "ShowCache"
        #Option     "ShadowFB"
        #Option     "UseFBDev"
        #Option     "Rotate"
        Identifier  "Card0"
# The following line is auto-generated by KNOPPIX mkxf86config
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "All"
        BoardName   "All"
#       BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultColorDepth 24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection


Anyone who knows how to decipher/write modelines have a clue? Or should I just switch to the card's S-Video output instead and be done with it?
Author:  tophee [ Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:29 am ]
Post subject: 
Have you tried pressing 'W' to cycle through the different aspect ratios? Even though you've got the correct modleine Myth could be defaulting to a 4:3 picture as I guess you haven't edited out all the other available modelines.
If you've got the resolution listed it should be fine and an appropriate Modeline, it should work.
Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but sometimes it is the easiest thing.
But I'm no expert (yet).
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