The I can't quite get my video right HOWTO.

[Boing]

- This is all WAY easier (maybe only possible) if you do everything from an root ssh session from another box while watching your xbox display on the TV/Monitor. I found sitting in the living room with my laptop networked in wireslessly worked well.

First - Try going through the modes that xbvset allows. You can check the changes by running xbvset, making your changes and then hitting ctrl-c to stop the script from finishing while it is in the countdown to reboot. You can check your changes by issueing: "killall X" which will restart the X server (yeah - I know it's not gracefull but it works).

If you find (as I did) that none of them are quite right you can resort to the fun method I eventually used to get my screen just right!

Again as ssh'd in as root from another box type: "man fbset" now RTFM.

Ok... play with the fbset but be carefull since if you push it to hard you can do damage to your monitor/TV (in theory). It's also possible that if you push it just right it will turn into a time machine.... that's probably right about the same frequency as the one that makes smoke come out of the back of your monitor/TV. No joke... make small changes or you WILL break something.

Boing Boing!!!

(BTW - Shallax - This seemed easier than messing around with the kernel.) hehe...

[Boing]

oh... and if you go the fbset route you need to make a note of all the settings and make sure the system runs fbset with all those settings in the init process.... I sort of hacked it into the /etc/init.d/fbset but it doesn't need to (probably shouldn't) be there.... any comments from the 'smart' ones?

[Boing]

this ended up working nicely for me on a hitachi digital 53" using component video -

Xbox / # fbset -i

mode "704x471-56"
# D: 27.028 MHz, H: 28.969 kHz, V: 55.710 Hz
geometry 704 471 704 471 32
timings 36998 110 55 49 0 64 0
extsync true
accel true
rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,0/0
endmode
Frame buffer device information:
Name : nVidia GeForce3-
Address : 0xf3c00000
Size : 4194304
Type : PACKED PIXELS
Visual : DIRECTCOLOR
XPanStep : 1
YPanStep : 1
YWrapStep : 0
LineLength : 2816
MMIO Address: 0xfd000000
MMIO Size : 16777216
Accelerator : Unknown (28)

[ShALLaX]

I tried to get someone to do it with fbset, but they said it wasnt possible, this is why i suggested kernel hacking.

To me, fbset would seem the logical answer.

[flaim]

I added parameters to change my settings in /etc/init.d/fbset like you recommended but the parameters do not change upon boot.

if i type the fbset command with all parameters in ssh and run fbset -i I get the same result you posted above. killall x does not work either...

here is my /etc/init.d/fbset file and thanks for your help:

#!/sbin/runscript

opts="start stop restart"

#depend() {
#}

start() {
ebegin "Setting terminals to: ${resolution}"
/usr/bin/fbset -g 704 471 704 471 32 -t 36998 110 55 49 0 64 0 -extsync true -accel true -a ${resolution}
eend $?
}

stop() {
ebegin "Setting terminals to: ${resolution}"
/usr/bin/fbset ${resolution}
eend $?
}

restart() {
svc_stop
sleep 5
svc_start
}

[nobspangle]

have you added the script to the startup sequence with rc-update?

[flaim]

yes. I have tried adding to boot and default runlevels with no effect... thanks for the idea though.

when I run fbset with the new parameters and then fbset -i the settings are correct. If I then killall X when X comes back up and I fbset -i the settings have been reset to the wrong settings. Is there somewhere else I need to add these settings?

[Boing]

My brain is frizzled... I'll try to look at what you posted when I am more lucid... I also just got a new TV and haven't tried gentoox on it yet... Perhaps I'll have new problems.... it's a hitachi ultravision 57" digital wide screen so hopefully being a hitachi still it will work but I know I'll need to change things since it's 16x9 ar.

Boing!