> Hi everyone, > > First off, I'm completely new to mythtv and to PVR/home theatre in > general...and usual thanks to the folks who work on mythtv and support > the project - great job! > > Now ... here's my situation. I recently purchased a Pundit-R BookPC > (http://www.cappuccinopc.com/bookpc-pundit-r.asp), a HD-3000 card, > and a Samsung LNR408D 40" LCD Flat Panel television > (http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_techspecs_full.php/masterid=7676889). > Ideally, I'd like to set up a home theatre for cable/FTA satelite, HDTV, > and PVR goodness. The Pundit-R is a bit low-powered for anything serious, > but I figured it was a cheap way to get started. My Samsung LCD TV is > still returnable (for about 20 days or so), so if anyone has any > suggestions > for a better choice that's comparable (price and quality, etc.) I'm all > ears. > > My problem is that I can't get the TV to display Xorg. I've got a > DVI->HDMI > cable that I'm using to do the display out to the TV, it almost works fine > in text mode (except for the fact that the screen size seems to be too > large > for the display and my cursor and the left-hand side is cropped off the > screen). > My xorg.conf file looks mostly like > http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/xorg.conf-HD.txt > except that I've obviously got a different video card. Basically, the only > error I've got to go off is the TV's 'mode not supported' whenever I try > to startx. > > So my questions ... is anyone here actually using a largish (~40") LCD > HDTV- > capable TV with linux? If so, which ones work really well (ie, any > recommendations?)? Any ideas for how to get this Samsung working with X? >
I'm still feeling my way here too, so don'tknow if this will help, but I have a cheap 32" LCD TV that gives very good results using ATI.dvi out /TV.hdmi in. No overscan and absolutely crystal clear X. I set up my modelines by reading the specs in the tv manual then feeding the numbers into videogen. I can't tell you the modelines right now as the TV's in for repairs (clears throat), and I havent set up ssh on the mythbox, but the TV manual gave me this information for 1366x768: Horizontal frequency = 49KHz, Vertical Frequency = 60Hz, If your manual has a table of supported resolutions and refresh rates then all you need is videogen. If I use different timings I get an out of range message on the tv, so this kind of panel is priobably very sensitive to the timings. What I'd really like is a 50Hz (PAL) input mode for interlaced analog TV The DVI modes listed are 480p-60Hz, 576p-50Hz, 720p-50Hz, 720p-60Hz, 1080i-50Hz and 1080i-60Hz If I could translate those into modelines... Marius _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
