Linux HOW-TO setup XBMC and Linux with correct resolution (xorg.conf)
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My post was not meant to be directed at anyone, I think that the initial post #1 should have included the whole ubuntu thread including the testing and setups portion which tells you how to tweak the modelines to compensate for under and over scan.

RTFM is completely up to the individual and some people can read for hours and some for less. I hate reading myself and I am no linux xpert by any means. I just know that googling to find the xact issue I am trying to fix in linux is usually NOT going to happen unless you are lucky and i am usually not.

I have just been reading thread after thread lately where it seems that people do not want to do the req'd labour to get the overall end result. I think how-to's are awesome and they help people immensly I know i have used several and posted several as well, both here and on the mythbuntu site. I still get pm'd over my hdmi audio success thread and that is a year or more old as well I am sure Olympia still gets pm'd over his GREAT how to on setting up what I think was the best xbmcbuntu how-to ever written.

I guess there is a real simple solution, we can use M$ and be told this is how it is; like it or not or use open-source product which was created by people whom I regard as thinking outside the box and actually makes us 'think' to use it.

ok that has to be 4 cents; what with inflation and allBig Grin

It's all good.

Regards,

Dave
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quick fix for oversized desktop - by antifiat - 2009-11-17, 15:28
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figured it out yet!?!?! - by geant90 - 2009-12-14, 23:54
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