[Kryspy]

Hi,

Today I have been enlightened. Ubuntu install from start to finish was less hectic than a Windows install.

What I wanted to accomplish:

1) Install ubuntu (check)
2) Mount Windows NTFS partition (check)
3) install ATI drivers (check)
4) install xbmc and configure it
5) autologin user and autostart xbmc (check)
6) set up lirc (check but still needs some button configuring)
7) fix ATI underscan (not done)
8) set up Samba between HTPC and other PC in the house (not done)

All in all not a bad start.

So anyone know how to fix the black frame around the screen (underscan) ? The Windows CCC has a slider to adjust over/underscan; LINUX just a button to click scale to screen or not.


Kryspy

[User 29008]

Kryspy, what TV do you have your HTPC attached to and what connection type are u using? HDMI? S-VHS? Composite?
Could also be that you have to go low level with "aticonfig" on the command line, that's what I had to do weeks ago when still using my onboard ATI. ATI drivers seem to set the TV resolution to underscan by default sometimes. When I checked with aticonfig, it showed me that the resolution wasn't set to 1920x1080, which is the res of my full hd plasma, but lower. I set it to 1920x1080 using aticonfig, corrected the x and y offset values to 0, which were also not correct. And voila ... perfectly fitting picture on my panel.

boba