Overscan issue with HDMI-connected screen

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 30 21:46:33 UTC 2021


Àlex Magaz composed on 2021-12-30 22:09 (UTC+0100):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> Àlex Magaz composed on 2021-12-30 15:57 (UTC+0100):

>>> I'm trying to fix an overscan issue (the image overflows by all 4 sides)
>>> with my screen when connected through HDMI. It works fine over DVI.
 											
>> I fixed my Proscan TV's overscan with:
>> xrandr --output HDMI-1 --set underscan on --set "underscan vborder" 20 --set "underscan hborder" 35

> Thanks, I already tried it, but those properties aren't available on the 
> Intel driver. That's why I'm using the '--transform' option.

This begs the issue why the intel DDX driver. All my Intel IGPs from G41-up
(2008?) (G41, Q43, Q45, Haswell, Kaby Lake HD 630, Rocket Lake UHD 730) are
running on the modesetting DIX driver. Q43 was where I needed to set underscan
with modesetting DIX on Proscan TV.
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