Fedora Core 6: x-window GUI looks terrible in sd tv

[artears]

I installed Fedora Core 6 to my ps3 without any problems.
Edited /etc/kboot.conf like the following since I am using a sd tv with 480i:
linux='/boot/vmlinux-2.6.16 initrd=/boot/initrd.img video=ps3fb:mode:1'

Then I made following changes in the x-server configuration file /etc/X11/xorg.conf :
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "fbdev"
Option "ShadowFB" "false"
# Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection

The final modification was changing /etc/inittab file to mode 5 like:
id:5:initdefault:

After the changes above, I made a reboot, x-window started with (hopefully) the option 480i, but the GUI looks terrible. I cannot understand anything since the picture I see is distorted and noisy looking and made of 4-5 identical gui windows inside each other, instead of one clear window. I wonder, if anyone experienced such a problem before? The addon cd I used is 20061208 version.

By the way, I started x-window manually as well before making any changes and I experienced the same problem. Then, I assumed that it was related to videomode, however it turned out that this was not the case, since forcing video to 480i did not help either.

Any help to correct this issue is appreciated. I am thinking of a ydl installation now instead of fedora core 6, but I decided to wait for your valuable feedback :smile2 :smilew

[jeffster]

Try running Xorgautoconfig. I'm not sure if that package is included in Fedora, but its worth a try.

[studtrooper]

Well, remember that everything looks bad in 480i. Have you tried running this same gui on a PC @ 640x480? It may look the same.

[jeffster]

Very true, X does look very grainy in 480i regardless of the setting. I have a SDTV as well so I decided to just use SSH with X11 forwarding from now on because all that interlacing hurts my eyes!

[artears]

Thank you for the replies. I will try running Xorgautoconfig, however the problem is not to have one grainy window. What I see is the same window appearing 4 or 5 times in one picture and everything looks bad/grainy. When I move the mouse, I see a cursor moving in each of those windows and since the picture quality is not allowing to understand anything, I was forced to switch back to text mode. Anyone experienced such a thing?

[UnixOs]

1st thanks for work hard to the scene sorry for my bad english i speak Spanish :cool2 but when i install Fedora core 5 doesn't have any prob and install perfect an then i install Fedora Core 6 im tryng problems with video display too it looks like blinkin screen i try to change the video mode with the command ps3videomode and dont have any locky anyone know how to fix this problem. I have a Hd Lcd Televixion :-oops: 46' Samsung

thanks for the help!

[mtrsrm]

I find that if I set the video mode with -f and then startx
it works "just fine" but I can't see the corners of the screen with
my monitor

ps3videomode -v 3 -f

-f for fullscreen
3 is 720p