First - everything looked great off the original stardust install. I've since managed to update everything to current... so...
a) I'm using the very most recent of everything.... booting off of Xromwell in an e: install.
b) Given the three options for xbvset I get...
1) Composite - 800x600 and 640x480 both work BUT they are shifted down to the bottom half of the screen when it X runs. Things look - ok sort of - when it's in console mode. A bit squished but I think I can muddle with the H and V to fix that... no amount of muddleing seems to move the X screen up from the bottom half of the screen.
2) VGA and HDTV modes all basically work but they go over the edges of the screen in all modes. If this was a normal monitor I'd just make it squash things a bit and I wouldn't be writing this... but... it's not.
so..... wassup with that?
or... even better can someone give me a brief run through on what I need to change to just mess with things like I'm used to doing - by hacking at the XF86config file. I screw around with it but it doesn't seem to make any difference at all....
a possible red herring....
If I boot off of the 'original' xbe the loader fits on the screen (but is a bit smaller than it used to be). On the 'new' HDTV ready xbe the loader is about as much over the edges of the screen as is X when it runs.
I'm happy to (in fact prefer to) mess with settings in an effort to explode my big expensive TV but I can't really figure out what I can change that has any impact.
help!
Boing!