Great! Now I'm having video display issues! So, I have a little bit of usable vision. Not much, but enough. No I don't use ZoomText, so don't go there, please. I said a little. Not that much. I've therefore hooked my laptop via HDMI up to my external flat screen 22 inch television. All works fantastically except for one incredibly incredibly annoying problem. No matter how high I said the screen resolution, even on 1368 I think it is by 700 something odd pixils, sorry, don't have the exact number in front of me, the screen is just fine on my built in laptop screen, but on the television, it's smishing the image toward the center of the screen. It's not terrible, but it's enough to be absolutely downright annoying! You're looking at probably now a 2 to 2 and a half inch border of just black blank nothing all the way around the perimeter of the screen on all 4 quadrants. I looked on Google, and apparently, this is a very common issue with 8.1. From what I keep seeing in all the pages, and all the forums that I have read, there is a utility I have to download called the Catalyst Control Center. In there, I have to disable overscanning on my external monitors. The issue is, try as I may, I can't find the darn download anywhere. I find tons of references to it, but no direct download. I thought I'd found it at one point, but all it wound up being was the Catalyst Omega drivers, but not the full Control Center software. I found several references as well where I can fix this manually through regedit, but I really! really! don't wanna go hackin' around the registry by hand. I'm not scared to do it, but I'm more just thinking what a pain in the A double crookid letter it'll be to do. You ask how this relates to Window-Eyes. Well, I dono if W E is anything like the Fish, but if so, there is its own video mirror driver that gets installed. I'd hate to do something with the display that then would cause W E to stop working correctly.
Even though this issue could be worse admittedly, it's definitely going to have me quite irritated, that's for sure! There's gotta be a way to fix this, and I'm not taking no for an answer! We looked through the settings of the TV, so before you come back saying, this is a setting that's off on your TV, go to another tech list that is more general discussion, let me say that probably wouldn't help. All settings on the television are correct, and believe you me, a sighted family member and I were incredibly thorough at looking. So the million and one dollar question:... what to do? Chris. _______________________________________________ Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ai Squared. For membership options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/options.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com/archive%40mail-archive.com. For subscription options, visit http://lists.window-eyes.com/listinfo.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com List archives can be found at http://lists.window-eyes.com/private.cgi/talk-window-eyes.com
