Enable black borders on widescreen display

[Ademar de Souza Reis Jr.]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:06:08PM +0100, Matthias B. wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:28:26 -0200 "Ademar de Souza Reis Jr."
> <ademar at mandriva.com.br> wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> The easiest way to center your image is to use xvidtune. If that doesn't
> work (e.g. in multihead setup), just increase/decrease the 2nd and 3rd
> number (horizontal centering) or the 6th and 7th number (vertical
> centering). Take to keep the distance between the 2 values constant (i.e.
> always increment/decrement both simultaneously). Furthermore the
> horizontal values need to be incremented/decremented in steps of 4 or 8
> AFAIK.

I tried xvidtune the first time, but it refused to work with this
custom modeline, always reporting it as non-supported by the
monitor.

But changing it manually I managed to make it work. I'll double
check to see if there's nothing wront with the values I'm
using.

Thanks for the explanation.
  - Ademar


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