Enable black borders on widescreen display

[Ademar de Souza Reis Jr.]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:14:05AM -0200, Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. wrote:
> 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?

I played with the fields next to the horiz/vert number of lines
and managed to make it work as desired, but I must confess I have
no idea of what I did, it just worked.

I think it's time to read something about how modelines work :-)

Thanks,
  - Ademar

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