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Hey all,
I recently set up a media center using arch as my distro. Everything works great! The only problem I have is that my screen resolution isn't perfect.
I have an ATI 5700 HD, I'm using the open source drivers. I have a Philips 32" 1080p TV --- optimal resolution is 1920x1080.
I'm using gnome, and under System > Administration > Monitors the correct resolution is shown. However, I can clearly see a half-inch thick border around my screen! I know this isn't correct, because my old acer aspire revo (using the nvidia blobs) can show the entire screen at the same resolution!
I have no intention of using the catalyst drivers but I fear that I may have to in order to get this working! Any ideas?
Attached is my xorg.conf config (I know it's unnecessary, but I generated it anyways).
My question: can I have full screen resolution WITHOUT using the closed-source tools & drivers?
Thanks
xorg.conf : http://pastebin.com/B4iEqTrM
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As always, the answer lay in the wiki/forums:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=109105
It was an overscan issue!
xrandr --output HDMI-0 --set underscan off
Now I just have to make it permanent....
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I dropped the above into a shell script and added it to gnome startup, which worked but looked ugly. I then tried creating a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostarts/ but that looked ugly too...
so I added it to ~/.xinitrc as
exec xrandr --output HDMI-0 --set underscan off &
And that didn't work at all.
Anyone have any better way of implementing this on a more permanent (and dare i say elegant) level? I mucked with xorg.conf but that didn't work.
Last edited by yochaigal (2011-03-14 06:47:02)
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