2011/1/5 Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx>: > Lots of HDMI TVs overscan the incoming image by default. > The underscan option was added as a way to compensate for > that by underscanning the image so that the edges would > not be cut off on an overscanning TV. ÂHowever, the TV > provides no way of knowing whether it is overscanning or > not. ÂIf the user has disabled overscan on their TV or has a > TV that does not overscan, you will get black bars around the > edges of your screen. ÂPrior to the patch we got complaints > and bug reports from users with overscanning TVs, now with > the patch, we get lots of complaints and bug reports from > users with non-overscanning TVs. ÂThere's no good default, > but on average there have been more users complaining about > it being on by default than off, so change it to off. ÂThis > will probably result in a new deluge of overscanning TV user > complaints. ÂThere's no winning. Thanks a lot for this patch! I really believe future TVs will be no-overscanning oriented and that's right choice for radeon. -- RafaÅ _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
