Enable black borders on widescreen display

[Ademar de Souza Reis Jr.]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:13:21PM +0100, Matthias B. wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:43:51 +0100 Dustin Lange <dlange.mail at sent.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > But how can I convince xrandr to display the black borders and not to 
> > stretch the image on the widescreen display?
> 
> I had a similar problem. My LCD TV has a resolution of 1360x768 but
> 8 columns and 7 rows are hidden by the case, so I needed a video mode
> that is 1352x761 on the Xorg side (so that Xorg won't use more than this),
> but still 1360x768 on the monitor side (so that the monitor doesn't
> scale). I solved this by adding a Modeline 1352x761 to my Monitor section
> that is identical to the 1360x768 mode (that the monitor reports via DDC)
> except for the horizontal and vertical total number.

I faced the same problem recently and was wondering about a way
to fix it. :-)

Any idea if it's possible to center the usable area? Or will I
have to mess with my TV config to center it?

Thanks.

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Ademar de Souza Reis Jr.
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