Configuring NVidia 8600GT for a proper 1920x1080 over HDMI

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Sat Nov 3 20:20:50 UTC 2007


On 11/3/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> Andrew Junev wrote:
> > Saturday, November 3, 2007, 9:35:54 PM, you wrote:
> >
> >> Dumb question - were you trying to run it from the command line,
> >> instead of from X?
> >
> > If you mean xvidtune, I tried to start it from an xterm window.
> > Is there some other way of doing this? Sorry for a (probably) dumb
> > question back to you... :)
> >
> That is the way you normally start it. Ok - you can try running
> system-config-display. It does not offer all the fine tunning
> options of xvidtune, but you can try ether editing your monitor
> specs, or specifying a lower max res and see if that helps.
>
> Or you can wait for someone that has more experience with HDMI to
> connect to a TV.

xvidtune will not work with the 'nvidia' X driver.
system-config-display will definitely not work with the nvidia X
driver, as it has no awareness of its existence.

As for the original problem, that sounds like classic TV overscan
which is often present when trying to run on a TV.




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