Hey, i probably didn't explain it well enough the first time, for my first problem, I was referring to a black gap between the projection of my computer image and the lower limit of the television screen, nothing is cutoff. I was just wondering if there was any type of overscan option or an option that would increase the vertical size of the Tv-Out projection. Anyway, in regards to the second problem I had, I was able to use gdb to connect to my laptop from my Desktop and get an error message. This happens whenever I try to play a video in fullscreen on my television with Tv-Out, with my laptop LVDS turned off. I'll attach the file rather than paste it in here. Yeah, I don't know if that's supposed to happen, or is it just me or whatever. Anyway, thanks for your interest. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Alex Deucher <<a href="mailto:alexdeucher@gmail.com">alexdeucher@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Paul Jones <<a href="mailto:raptorman18@gmail.com">raptorman18@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Hello, I"m having some issues with the opensource radeon driver's tv-out > settings on my ati mobility radeon 9000. I like to use the xrandr interface > on my Dell D600 laptop, which is currently running Debian Lenny, 2.6.24, and > whatever version of the ati drivers that is currently in testing. > > I get the TV to display the same thing as my monitor with the following > commands and they work well. > > xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600 > xrandr --outut LVDS --mode 800x600 > xrandr --output S-video --set tv_vertical_position 5 --mode 800x00 --same-as > LVDS > > However, there is a good region at the bottom of the screen that is not > covered, because the image of my desktop on the TV is too small. So I'm > wondering if there is any overscan setting that exists, or is in the works, > and how long before we can expect to see it. I'm also wondering if there is > some other possible work around. There is a setting currently available > through xrandr to adjust the horizontal size (tv_horizontal_size) but there > does not appear to be a command to adjust the vertical size > (tv_vertical_size doesn't exist?), which could possibly solve my problem, > since even when I have overscan on in Windows XP with the factory drivers, > the overscan would leave portions of the screen cutoff. > </div>Tv-out can in theory scale any mode to standard tv modes, however, we only have support in the driver for 800x600 right now.  Since your LVDS native mode is probably larger than 800x600, there will be a part the tv cannot display. <div class="Ih2E3d"> > I also want to report a bug that may be of interest, but I'm not even sure > if it is a bug: When I set the S-Video output I like to turn off my monitor > with the command xrandr --output LVDS --off. This way I don't feel like I'm > putting extra life on my laptop monitor and power sources, when I'm using > TV-Out for extended time periods. However, when I do this and try to > fullscreen the video player, X completely crashes and takes me back to the > gdm. So, I don't know if it's something I'm doing wrong or a capability we > just don't have yet. </div>Can you start X in gdb and get a backtrace? <a href="http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging" target="_blank">http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging</a> Alex </blockquote></div>