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Edit: New questions-TV out, blurry text, lopsided screen, etc.
hypernova:
Thanks for the suggestions guys.
See new questions at top.
MajorLag:
I think I have the same card... or one very similar. Its a radeon and it has similar problems. I'll tell you what I know.
--- Quote from: hypernova on March 11, 2006, 06:07:52 pm ---1. The boot up image and Windows loading screens are scrolling/flipping on the TV. Any workaround to this? Once windows is completely loaded, everything's fine.
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I've read that, for some reason, the card defaults to PAL output. On an NTSC TV it would appear like you describe. Once the windows driver is load the card is software switched into NTSC mode. I don't know the details, but supposedly there is a jumper you can either cut, or connect, that will change the hardware default. I don't find it any more annoying then having to Wait through the boot process with correct display anyway.
--- Quote ---2. The screen is lopsided, like a hanging picture. It's tilted ever-so-slightly clockwise.
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Haven't noticed this on mine. Doesn't the control panel for the card have something to adjust it?
--- Quote ---3. The screen is also an inch higher than it should be. (Black space occupies the bottom.)
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I don't know if it is the same problem, but my card always ignores its image adjustment settings until you've changed the resolution once. On mine this means that there is a black bar of unused space on the he bottom of the screen. I worked around it by writing a really trivial sdl app to change the resolution to 320x200 and back again at startup, forcing the stupid drivers to load my settings.
--- Quote ---4. Text. My goodness, the text. >:( Anything too small is almost painful to read on Windows. The Windows OS is just hard to see/read on the TV.
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Windows wasn't designed for TVs. I personally use High-contrast mode to make most text more readable.
Can't help with the rest. Sorry.
hypernova:
Found the control panel for adjusting the screen size/position. Still ain't perfect, as edited in the first post. That darned warp in the lower left corner is annoying, to say the least.
Right now, I'm only using the supplied cable to connect to the tv. It comes out of the svideo port on the card, and goes to the yellow video jack on the tv (not the svideo.) Maybe an svideo-svideo cable will help things a bit. Or possibly even a component cable. But I've read those things require some trial and error to get working correctly. I'll do a search again, anyway.
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