handling radeon overscan

[Matthew Monaco]

 >On 01/15/2011 04:28 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote:
>> On 01/15/2011 12:19 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Matthew Monaco<dgbaley27 at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>> My monitor, ASUS VE248H, looks horrible when the overscan is on (or is it
>>>> off? The image on the screen is too small.)
>>>>
>>>> There is an option for Full / Overscan, however it doesn't seem to have any
>>>> effect on the image (I really wish it did).
>>>>
>>>> This is all on HDMI, over DVI it looks fine; I guess the monitor gives a
>>>> different EDID per connection.
>>>>
>>>> What are my options here?
>>>
>>> xrandr --output<OUTPUT> --set underscan off
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks. Are there any plans to include this in xorg.conf so it take effect
>> immediately for all X sessions, or even in the kernel so KMS works nicely?
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 >It's disabled by default starting in 2.6.38
 >
 >Alex

Applied 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=56bec7c009872ef33fe452ea75fecba481351b44

Looks great in X, no effect on the console.

Funny commit comment. Wouldn't adding radeon.underscan={auto,off,on} appease 
all? Or a setting in the video= command line option like 
video=HDMI-0:underscan{off,on,auto}?