Bug 677451

Summary: install with wide-screen TV needs wider left margin
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: John Reiser <jreiser>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: ajax, anaconda-maint-list, gansalmon, g.kaviyarasu, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, pjones, vanmeeuwen+fedora, xgl-maint
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Description John Reiser 2011-02-14 21:10:29 UTC 
Description of problem: Consumer wide-screen TV (1280x720 and larger) often over-scans in the horizontal direction, even when digital.  Anaconda installer screens should avoid the left-most 50 pixels (1.3cm on a typical desktop monitor with 0.25mm/pixel) so that the over-scanning does not chop off intended text and graphics.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-15.20

How reproducible: every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install using a wide-screen TV as monitor, such as Panasonic 26" to 40" models.
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Actual results: Left-most 50 pixels or so are off-screen, and include critical UI stuff such as radio buttons, check boxes, text, etc.


Expected results: Content is always visible, even with common over-scan on wide-screen TV.


Additional info: see http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Overscan
Comment 1 Peter Jones 2011-02-14 21:23:56 UTC 
Overscan is KMS's problem to deal with.
Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 13:32:21 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19
Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2014-11-18 18:50:04 UTC 
Sadly there's no reasonable way to actually detect whether the display needs overscan compensation.