@WhySoSerious70: HDTV Overscan. You shouldnt really have overscan problems on yout hdtv unless it doesnt have 1:1 pixel mapping but nearly all do.

Check the zoom button on your tv's remote. I didnt know i had zoom options for the component channel, i assumed it would be at a set size but it did look a bit zoomed in, so i clicked it and selected Full1 rather than Full2 et voila! Everything can be seen. Check your tv manual. Good luck.

Hmmm....perhaps. This is a 32" Vizio and it has 3 view modes that I know of. Normal, Wide and Panoramic. I'll try panoramic. That keeps it wide screen but pushes the edges in a bit. It may just do the trick.

Odd. You shouldnt really have the option to change the aspect ratio as 720p is inherently widescreen. I only have the option for Normal, Wide and Panoramic when using 480i or 480p signals. They dont show up for 720p or 1080p, just the Full1 and Full2.

Is your tv LCD, Plasma or CRT?

hi WhySoSerious70,
I think you might have a xdsl version that has a problem with the sceen resetting when the 1.6 fix is used. It should be fixed in the current version. You can use it for any xbox version, but it seems like you might have solved it anyway





sudo rm -f /tmp/.X1-lock 2>/dev/null &

Well since it's not very time consuming, I just reinstalled it on my box. Set up my geometry then restarted and everything is fine. Still gotta tweak the settings as it doesn't fill the entire screen, but it is centered. And you're correct. In 720p there is no settings for normal, wide or panoramic. Thanks for the help.

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I messed with the 1.6 fix, but it was no help to my "black bars" situation. So, since I switched back to normal, should I just add this to the top of .xinitrc , or to the top of .xinitrc 1.6? I still get the error on boot every other time or so.

hi Master Reefed,
Add it to the top of .xinitrc1.6. and run the screen fix app again. All it does is remove the X1 lock file.

@Master Reefed

If you're still struggling with you underscan issues. Probably the easiest thing to do is alter the fbdev settings. As an example, (come out of any xorg, xfree86, xvesa and 1.6 screenfix your using) and execute this command:



This should enlarge the screen in a new display. If it doesn't work or you want to go back to where you were, just press ctrl, alt, del to exit it. You can alter the values occording to the overscan stickies.

If you want to make you new settings permanent, just copy the line into /opt/bootlacal.sh without the ;statx bit whick I'm sure you already know.

hi!

i have a Toshiba 32c3530, 32" HD Ready-TV. What must i do to have a perfect 720p-Screen? the screen isn`t full viewable... i don`t know, what all these fbset-options mean. tried one out, but it doesnt help. Maybe some good presets should be included in the distribution? Thank you so much for your help!

Before this release i used to get the linux24 kernel error but now i dont get that error in this release. I dont know wether if i have a 1.6 or 1.6b xbox but new problem is after i select a resolution it just sits there nothing happens, what can i do?

Hi stevewal thanks for making this alive again. Its great. I have the candidate 6.5 and in 720p i have some overscan issues. No its not my lcd. I am absolute no coder, could it be possible to make a default 720p size so no one must resize it? I would like to start it and for me as an enduser it would be great to run this in every resolution whithout issues.Looking forward to see this fixed?Thanks great work again

All my xboxes are ram upgraded on the 720p and I would venture to say that without this mod the 720p would kill video on the browser.
But as far as I can tell the fix is just those prefixed #'s that your changing to perfect the 1.6 screen fix.

That means just adjust the signals to the resolutions native signal and adjust from there.
Example on the ini the resolution is 600x480 which is basically a modded 480 resolution with the actual 480 resolution being 720x480.So if you replace this with 720p or 1080i it will change to these settings and the screen will then be way out of size and need adjusting but the increased resolution will be there.
On the screen fix side the 541x433 or whatever represents the original 720x480 native that we were talking about before. So replacing these numbers for 720p you would just need to start at the 720p base #'s and resize from there.Being 1080x720+0+0 when starting for 720p and 1920x1080+0+0 on 1080i.

This is a skill everyone using the program should be able to do because if you cant use this tool effectivly then your xbox will become stationary once the resolution is perfected. These settings will most likely not work on another tv.Once the 720p or 1080i is selected if you hook the xbox up to a tv that does not accept that signal after cromwell loads you will most likely have no video at all.

Stevewal - sorry i havnt been posting here as of late. i have a current medical condition, which i dont feel like announcing to every one on the forum, and my xbox is actually dead atm, and i havnt been bothered to work on it at all.

i dont think ill be working much on this distro, but i may be able to help work on 0.7 if your still planning to work on it

Hi scuba. Sorry to hear about ur illness. Hope it's something you can recover from. You've been a great help, so if you would like to lend a hand in the future it would be greatly appreciated. Hope you get well soon.


hi Agitator,
As run088, says the signal is going to be different on all tv's. I've got a tv and a monitor that work fine with 720p and no overscan issues. Personally I use 640x480, because as run088 says again I could only watch many flash videos in a small window in 720p, as the processor was overloading (and that's with a ram upgrade)

But anyway I've made a kind of giu frontend for fbset. It does simple things like expand or reduce the screen size and move the screen up, down left and right. It will do it in a new display, so if your tv does not like the setting you select and can't see anythin then it will return to the old display in 15 secs. I've only tested it on my monitor at 640x480 so far, but it should work at other resolutions.

any way, you can find it here:

Screen_resizer

its recoverable, it will just take time. just send me a PM when your working on something in the future, hopefully ill have a new xbox by then too

How do you run .dsl files in XDSL?

cant "run .dsl files.

.dsl files are installs for programs specifically setup for dsl.

you can either navigate to the directory of the .dsl using emelfm, highlight it, then hit the "MYDSL" button at the top to install it.

or, you can rename the file to whatever.dsl.tar.gz, then double click to open it, copy the files to the directory it coincides with...the directory tree will be in tact inside the file.

Hello. I have a quick question about XDSL. Is possbile to make connector similiar to : to work under xdsl ? Is there need to have some drivers or whatever ? I have tried to just connect it, but it don't work. Thanks in advance for reply

mclkai

Yes you probably can. I'm using a similar one on xdsl right now. Best to get one that works out of the box thought. Definatlely keep your receipt though as some usb adapers work and some don't.

Kick In Da Door. I have to say that I really don't know what the problem is there. The only time I got a similar problem was when I changed the video resolution in unleashx, that I was launching from, and it set up some weird compatibility error with xromwell. Try launching from avalaunch if your using unleashx.

Of course double check that everything is spelled correctly in your linuxboot.cfg. Sometimes there is extra charcters in this file that you can't see in some editors. Best to check the file in various editors to see if there's anything there that sould'nt be.

Thanks for your excellent work on this project!

I have a loopback install and have installed java, flash 9, FF2 and used your fix to fill the screen. All looks great, but I can't get FF2 to launch. It worked at one point for one or two launches, but now when I right click the FF icon and select * Firefox 2 nothing happens.

How do I uninstall applications like Firefox 2 so I can do a fresh install of them? I don't see a folder with the add ons I installed from the X-DSL menu, does it just lump them into the KNOPPIX file? If that's the case I suppose I have reinstall everything again.

^^ Replying to my own post, Finally remembered my original login to this site.

I installed the Firefox2 Bon echo version through the MyDSL Extension tool, UCI option. I now have a version of Firefox2 working. I updated the Flash to ver 9 through the upgrade menu and pages (Slacker.com) still stated they need me to update to Flash 9. I installed the Flash update through Firefox and it seems to have taken, Slacker.com, Yahoo.com immediately crash Firefox2 now. Is this normal, are these Flash pages just too media rich for the xbox?

MX-Chris-187
The reason I've set up the upgrades in this way is because flashplayer 9 does'nt work in xdsl without a fare bit of messing around.

try installing firefox2 again using the upgrades menu. it will just overwrite the old one.

oh you will need to delete your installed flashplayer from /home/dsl/.mozilla/plugins.

Instead of repairing the rc2 install I found your rc5 and did a fresh install and ran all the upgrades, all the sites I want to use are working as they should.

Thanks again for your hard work.

How do I remove the links to the old installs on the (blue background) boot menu? It's no big deal I just have to click on the bottom most item on the list but it may get confusing if I keep installing your updated versions.

Right now my boot menu Looks like this:

XDSL
XDSL Loopback Insall
XDSL Loopback Insall
XDSL Loopback Insall

Hello, I have X-DSL 0.6 running on a Xbox 1.0, which is plugged to my Samsung 206BW screen with a homemade VGA cable (with LM1881). It runs pretty well.

But the 800x600 is not very comfortable for browsing the internet. The xbox video mode is sort of ugly, and the vesa cheatcode (modifiyng the linuxboot.cfg) brings me a beautiful, sharp and full-screened picture. But still in 800x600. Is there any simple way to upgrade to at least 1024x768? I'm new in the world of Linux... Thanks in advance

You can customize your resolution with the "Screen Resizer" tool posted by stevewal here.

You can fill the screen using the method at the bottom of the XDSL manual.

hi,
go to /mnt/hda50/linuxboot.cfg
and delete the installs your no longer using


baldinger, you can use video=xbox:720p

Thanks, that did it.

Posting this from the xbox

It's me again.

MX-Chris-187:
The Screen Resizer doesn't seem to work, I tried to install it with MYDSL. Nothing happens.

stevewal:
It doesn't work. The screen goes black but X-DSL is still booting (I can hear the HDD).
I do not use a Component cable, or a XVGA2 or any converter, just a simple homemade VGA cable. It is detected in the Xromwell as a "VGA SoG" cable and in XBMC as a "VGA" cable. 480p, 720p and 1080i don't apprear in the MS Dashboard.

I already searched the web, but all the pages found about X-DSL and high resolutions only talk about YUV cables and HDTV, not VGA and monitor...

resizer worked for me, but was useless for my "black bars" situation.

open emelf as normal user, highlight it and hit the "mydsl" button, but before ya do that, check to see if its installed already... right click desktop/mydsl/screenresizer.

Master Reefed,
You've definately got me stumped here. One more thing b4 I give up on ur screen size problem. Replace you're xromwell with this default.xbe.
Then when you get the xromwell boot screen, go to settings an choose video -> widescreen. Just a wild guess but it's worth a try.


baldinger,
Yea I'm not sure about the compatibility of cromwell/xromwell and home made vga cables. OK I'll have a quick look. ................ Hmm, maybe you need a different cable ie x2vga to get 720p. Or do the Xbox's internal sync signals mod. Xromwell obviously will output vga signals. OK I admit it I really don't know the answer lol. brb.

You could try the same advice I gave Master Reefed above and use the newer xromwell bios above, just in case there is some new copatiblity to your video encoder chip, that will help you get higher vga settings.

no change steve, it already said widescreen... I'm guessing cause of my dashboard settings.

the only thing that really urks me, is that the screen fits with EVERY other app/game.

really man, no biggie though, I can see the screen fine, just kindve an irritating itch ya know? lol

Thank you sooooo much for all your effort, this release works so very well.

The resizer works for me @ 720p however the desktop background and windows seem to have dropped to a lower bit depth. And all desktop icons dissappear. Im only a beginner so now im stumped. Looks like its 256 colour or 8 bit graphics or something.

My guess is maybe ram related if you dont have the upgrade.The 720p signal seems alot for the xbox to handle even with the upgrade on some of its features.
Also how is yours setup?
If the screen fix is not used and the config file is altered only what do you get?
I ask because there is a possibility the screen may be over sized and has not disappeared but are overscanned out of the screen.
Depending on the tv model the #'s will very from tv to tv by a large margin.

I have a short question Is there a 2gb limit if i use loopback install?Can this be up to 4gb or 6gb?
How could i do it for myself or please implement it
...and if i use a swap file make it sense to do 256mb or is the more swapram not in use?
thanks

As far as I know 2gigs is the limit on the loopback and 128 on the swap but I could be wrong.I recall earlier in this very thread the topic was talked about read threw it and you will find what I am talking about it should be on the 1st few pages if I am correct.

cbagy,
yea you're right the screen resizer does'nt work properly for 720p. Unfortunately I cna't improve it as the fault lies with fbset (a program the resizer uses). It kinda makes no sense either cus setting it to the default values for xfbev does'nt work either. I've spent hours on this. Anyway for now we can say it works for 640x480 and I think 800x600 but I need somone to test this as 800x600 is not supported by my monitor corectly.

Agitator,
OK this is another sticking point. You can easily create a 4gb loopback file and install xdsl onto it. Now for some reason when xdsl boots it doesn't recognise any size over 2gb. You might think it should be a simple script change, but there is nothing in the scrip to limit the recognisible size to 2gb. The install script can easily be changed to 4gb and installs flawlessly. So your guess is as good as mine.
The boot script is: the linuxrc in the minirt.gz or irdloop.gz

the loopback install script is /usr/sbin/xbox-loopbackinstall. Here you will see:-


whick can be changed to:-

and you should see xdsl install flawlessly, untill you try to boot it.

As for the swap, I don't think there is a normal swap partition limit. The only limit I know is the preset to 256mb for a native install. As a rule of thumb the swap should be around double the ram. So 128mb for an xbox or 256mb for an upgaded xbox (like one of run088'sl)

Hello, I have a xbox 1.6 an i just adjusted screen linux and fit alright the tv screen, but all is in green color and i can't use xfree86 or xorg, any changes. Some help please? Thanks for all your hard work. Sorry but my english isn't very good.

Been trying to install XFree86 but won't install.
It looks as though it is trying (screen flashes a few times) but ends up back at the normal desktop.
Just wondering if anyone can give any advice please.
Is there anything in the config file I can change?

Thanks

BTW,

Why is scrolling laggy in XDSL? Gentoox which is more CPU intense doesn't lag when scrolling with Firefox.

How can the lagging be fixed?

Thanks.

hi,

i'm trying to load ff2 but when i right click on firefox and select ff2, nothing happens

this is what i have done. i burnt the iso onto a cdr, loaded xdsl off the cdr, i installed loopback, shutdown, loaded xdsl from hdd, upgraded GTK2 successfully, upgraded ff2 (there was an error about no space but i've just deleted 4gb from E drive).

I've reinstalled xdsl, gtk2 and ff2 at least 5 times and still not working.

Can anyone help?

Hi, just update to Xfree86 and the scrolling will be perfect:

1) Right click on desktop then:

2 ) Xdsl Upgrades / Upgrade display / Install Xfree86



No space error may be related with your FILE SYSTEM created at loopback install, try a bigger file system, 2000Mb is the maximum.

Is there any way you can release this un-iso?
Just the files not the .iso? Megga upload, or File Factory work well. Thank you for every ones hard work on this project.

Unfortunately when I install Xfree86, XDSL reverts back to 480p. I am using 720p as my resolution and Xfree86 doesn't seem to work with that.

I use 720p too.

1) Edit this file:

/etc/X11/XF86Config-4

2) Find "Screen" section:
3) Replace "640x480" to your needs.
4) It should look like this:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Nv"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "xbox720p_1"

willows02,

That worked, thanks.

BTW, how can I edit the Firefox link on the desktop so it runs Firefox 2 instead when clicking it instead of having to right click and run it?

Installed SmoothWheel and FullerScreen addons and its working great! My only gripe is that text isn't as clear as I would like it. Is there a way to add ClearType or font-smoothing in XDSL or Firefox?

To run FIrefox 2 as default:

1) Right click on firefox icon.
2) Click on Properties
3) Edit the "Command:" line to point firefox 2, put the path /opt/firefox/firefox

Can i get some help please

Im looking to install xdsl on my xbox

I was going to install xbuntu but i dont have a memory card, although i do have mech assault


anyway i see you can replace the bios using Cromwell

can i do this without a a memory card and a usb adapter

can i load it onto the hardrive and then burn the xdsl.iso and run it and it will work?

i have read the how to a million times but still finding a few things difficult to unserstand

I have an Xbox i have mech assault and it appars to have a saved game on the hard drive alread. I have no memory card

so is there any option open to me.

Thaanks..

1. Is xbox modded already? I guess not. You have 2 options: build this: http://www.xbox-linux.org/wiki/Xbox_Linux_..._cable_yourself and use a compatible USB flash drive and use your MA disc to softmod the xbox with Krayzie's Ndure 1.1. Or use this tutorial: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=496263 which requires you to open up your xbox.

2. After the softmod, burning xdsl to a DVD-R or CDRW media and booting xbox with it will work.