I have an Intel i3 hooked up to the HDMI input of my 50-inch plasma TV. The TV's native resolution is 1366x768. It was bought in the summer of 2007. I have 2 problems I want to fix as far as displaying stuff on it is concerned...
1) Despite the TV being native 1366x768, it defaults to 1280x720, which is the first mode listed in the EDID. Fixed-pixel displays show best at their native resolution So I ran "Xorg -configure" and created an xorg.conf file, and forced 1366x768 resolution. And got no picture. I tried X again at 128x720. Then I used xrandr to change to 1920x1080, and it worked. Used xrandr to change to 1366x768, and it hung. From Xorg.0.log ... [ 2826.586] (II) intel(0): switch to mode 1366x768 on crtc 3 (pipe 0) [ 2920.286] (EE) [ 2920.286] (EE) Backtrace: [ 2920.286] (EE) 0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x36) [0x596016] [ 2920.286] (EE) 1: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x199f49) [0x599f49] [ 2920.286] (EE) 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x7fb5eef2e000+0x10460) [0x7fb5eef3 e460] [ 2920.286] (EE) 3: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__select+0x13) [0x7fb5edc760e3] [ 2920.286] (EE) 4: /usr/bin/X (WaitForSomething+0x19f) [0x5937df] [ 2920.286] (EE) 5: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x38872) [0x438872] [ 2920.286] (EE) 6: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x27365) [0x427365] [ 2920.286] (EE) 7: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7fb5edbb34bd] [ 2920.287] (EE) 8: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x26ec9) [0x426ec9] [ 2920.287] (EE) Any ideas? 2) Overscan... bleagh. It's rather difficult to start Firefox when the launch bar is off the bottom of the screen. It just barely pokes its head above the bottom. There's a bunch of magic that xrandr can work on VGA, but I'm using HDMI, so no go. And the TV does *NOT* have a VGA input on the back, regardless of what the xrandr output says. I've read about "xnest" and "xephyr" X "sub clients" that can use a smaller window within the main window. There don't seem to be any ebuilds for them. The one link I found for downloading the Xephyr source is a dead link. Any ideas? BTW, where's output from "xrandr", for what it's worth... Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767 VGA1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 920mm x 518mm 1920x1080 60.0*+ 30.0 1280x720 60.0 + 1680x1050 59.9 1680x945 60.0 1400x1050 59.9 1600x900 60.0 1280x1024 60.0 1440x900 59.9 1280x960 60.0 1366x768 60.0 1360x768 60.0 1280x800 59.9 1280x768 60.0 1024x768 60.0 1440x480 30.0 1440x480i 30.0 1024x576 60.0 800x600 60.3 848x480 60.0 720x480 59.9 640x480 59.9 59.9 DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) DP2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
