Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"...

[Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku]

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. 

On 2016-10-19 12:11, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey  wrote:
> > On 10/18/2016 08:57 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey  wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have three different manufacturers and each one has it, but on mine it
> >>> wasn't marked in the manual.
> >>
> >> Not all TVs can disable overscan.  The last time was shopping, many of
> >> the Sony Bravias couldn't (that was a few years ago).  On some TVs
> >> I've seen, in order to disable overscan the signal resolution has to
> >> match the panel resolution exactly...
> >>
> >
> > Yeah, I understand about the Sony TVs. A friend bought one in 2012/2013
> > and we even emailed Sony and their reply was it can't be done.
> >
> > Until I found an option under Setup called Screen or Screen Display, and
> > set it to Full Pixel. That disabled the overscan.
>
> Several other brands also have some odd, trademarked, phrase for the
> "disable overscan" feature, so keep an eye out for display modes with
> odd names invented by a marketting person who never quite understood
> what that mode actually does.
>
> If you ask about your model in some of the home-theater forums,
> somebody usually knows.  But, you've got to wade through those awful
> web-UI based "forums"...
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"...

[Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku]

In terms of the make and model, it is a Panasonic Viera TC-P42S30.

On 2016-10-18 12:32, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 10/18/2016 08:57 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey  wrote:
>>
>>> I have three different manufacturers and each one has it, but on mine it
>>> wasn't marked in the manual.
>>
>> Not all TVs can disable overscan.  The last time was shopping, many of
>> the Sony Bravias couldn't (that was a few years ago).  On some TVs
>> I've seen, in order to disable overscan the signal resolution has to
>> match the panel resolution exactly...
>>
> 
> Yeah, I understand about the Sony TVs. A friend bought one in 2012/2013
> and we even emailed Sony and their reply was it can't be done.
> 
> Until I found an option under Setup called Screen or Screen Display, and
> set it to Full Pixel. That disabled the overscan.
> 
> Again, not documented, but it was there. And it's never labeled as
> Overscan[ning] which would be the intuitive way to label it.
> 
> With my other TVs none of them had it in the manuals, I found them by
> trying all the settings on the TV.
> 
> Another option would be for the OP to post make/model of TV, maybe
> there's a non-obvious way to change it on his TV - you just never know.
> 
> Dan
> 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"...

[Daniel Frey]

On 10/18/2016 08:57 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey  wrote:
> 
>> I have three different manufacturers and each one has it, but on mine it
>> wasn't marked in the manual.
> 
> Not all TVs can disable overscan.  The last time was shopping, many of
> the Sony Bravias couldn't (that was a few years ago).  On some TVs
> I've seen, in order to disable overscan the signal resolution has to
> match the panel resolution exactly...
> 

Yeah, I understand about the Sony TVs. A friend bought one in 2012/2013
and we even emailed Sony and their reply was it can't be done.

Until I found an option under Setup called Screen or Screen Display, and
set it to Full Pixel. That disabled the overscan.

Again, not documented, but it was there. And it's never labeled as
Overscan[ning] which would be the intuitive way to label it.

With my other TVs none of them had it in the manuals, I found them by
trying all the settings on the TV.

Another option would be for the OP to post make/model of TV, maybe
there's a non-obvious way to change it on his TV - you just never know.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting X11 to "underscan"...

[Michael Mol]

On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 03:57:56 PM Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2016-10-18, Daniel Frey  wrote:
> > I have three different manufacturers and each one has it, but on mine it
> > wasn't marked in the manual.
> 
> Not all TVs can disable overscan.  The last time was shopping, many of
> the Sony Bravias couldn't (that was a few years ago).  On some TVs
> I've seen, in order to disable overscan the signal resolution has to
> match the panel resolution exactly...

That's rather what I'm accustomed to seeing, hence my request for the xrandr 
output.

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