Re: Mythbuntu

[Tim Carmean <tecarmea@xxxxxxx>]

Now from an email address that's actually subscribed to the list (my
apologies to whoever is the moderator these days)!

I believe you were running your HDMI connection through some sort of
intermediate device yes? If so I would suggest connecting directly to
the TV, running nvidia-settings to try and get the correct resolution,
when closing nvidia-settings it will write a new xorg.conf so it
should use that from that point on rather than trying to autodetect
the correct resolution (from there you should be able to plug back
into your HDMI switch thing). I have had similar problems in the past
with trying to detect correct monitor resolutions through a KVM
switch. Wouldn't surprise me if that was happening here.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:11 AM, Dan Sauer <dmsauer@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> The system in question is an Asus P5N7A-VM motherboard with onboard NVidia
> 9300, 4GB system RAM 256 Video Shared RAM, 2.93 GHz Dual Core Intel (LGA
> 775).  Running as root nvidia-settings brings up a gui with some resolutions
> that could possibly be changed, but the only options are for lower
> resolutions that are square (not wide angle).  I don't know where to set the
> available list of resolutions, which would be nice....
>
> Chris wrote:
>>
>> What are you using for the output video card?  I remember when I was
>> running an old ati, I was able to configure xorg with 'dpkg --reconfigure
>> etc/x11/xorg.conf'  I don't know if this works in the current version of
>> Ubuntu however.
>>
>> Dan Sauer wrote:
>>>
>>> So I took the plunge, and tried to set up a tivo using Mythbuntu.
>>>  Everything went great during the install and it works now, except for two
>>> problems.  First, my LCD HDTV is capable of wide screen 1280x768, but for
>>> some reason the only thing that is available is 1024x768.  I've tried with
>>> both HDMI and VGA out and nothing seems to work.  I've tried a bunch of
>>> manual configurations of /etc/X11/xorg.conf and occasionally I can get a
>>> wide screen, but then the myth frontend will be wide aspect ratio but only
>>> in the upper left (fills about 75% of the screen with empty bars around the
>>> right and bottom edges).  Also when I do so, the text in the menus and
>>> terminals in the default GUI are extremely small.  I would like to get this
>>> to work over HDMI, since I can route that directly to the receiver and have
>>> the receiver strip off the audio before sending it to the TV.  This brings
>>> us to problem #2, namely no sound over HDMI.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any suggestions for either of these?  BTW, I've spent
>>> three nights now googling for the answers to the resolution stuff.  To the
>>> best of my knowledge there is no easy command line fix whereby a resolution
>>> and refresh rate can be entered or a myth frontend size configured (it would
>>> be so much easier if it were).  I'm running Mythbuntu 9.10.
>>>
>>> Thanks & Best regards,
>>> Dan
>>>
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