XWindows and KDE displaying different Resolutions on my TV

[douglasw0]

HELP! No really, HELP. I'm throwing myself upon the sword of the community for any shread of a clue..

Ok, a bit over dramatic.

I'm a new MythTV / PVR Linux experiemter. Got the idea to do this just around the time we decided to go HD in our house (a few weeks ago) and i've been playing with this ever since. Most all the basics are good to go at this point other than one, small annoyance (ok, major setback...)

My 37" Sharp Aquos brand spanking new 37D40U LCD TV seems to think it's a 740x480 screen. I know it can do 1080i, 720p resolutions and i've had many a boot up screen showing me a perfect 1366x768 resolution (the resolution the book on my TV says it supports).

The problem is, no matter how pretty the picture I get on graphical boot, the moment the machine boots up and switches over to KDE's desktop manager (actually GDM I guess is the default "XDM" Login screen) it switches my PC to 480p mode and displays a Nice 740x480 screen which makes me want to use the TV from across the street it's so big...not to mention none of the KDE menus fit on the screen and the best resolution I get on TV is 480p from my Hi Def Signal.

Specs:
I"ve got a Fedora Core 5 system running with Myth TV installed from RPM (0.19). The tuner card is a pcHDTV 3000, with an NVidia GeForce MX 5700 card...think that's all the relivant info other than the TV is as speced above and the computer is connected by DVI -> HDMI cable. NVidia driver version: 8756, Kernel Version: 2.6.16-1_2096_FC5 (SMP).

So, as I was saying above I've had several modelines (listed below) in my xorg.conf file:

modeline "1366x768p" 84.750 1368 1448 1576 1776 768 771 776 798 -hsync +
vsync
modeline "1368x768p" 85.478 1368 1424 1536 1792 768 771 777 795 +hsync +
vsync
#Known Working Modelines
modeline "1920x1080i" 74.250 1920 2008 2052 2200 1080 1084 1089 1125 int
erlace +hsync +vsync

All modelines above were generated using a windows tool that generates X modelines and the 1920x1080i line is known good as that mode actually RUNS on my windows box and I exported the modeline right out of that.

In ALL of these modelines above when I boot up the graphical system boot screen (the blue screen with the dropdown arrow that shows you the system boot "ok" messages) appears in a perfect resolution for my screen, perfectly centered and always excelent quality and size. However, the MOMENT GDM starts up the screen blacks on me and comes right back in 720x480 mode. Just as the screen blacks out an "info" box from the TV pops up showing me 1080i which then switches to 480p and then the GDM screen comes up in that horrible 720x480 mode.

XOrg.0.log is showing the following relivant info:

(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce FX 5700 at PCI:1:0:0
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 262144 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.36.20.23.00
(II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 8X
(--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX 5700 at PCI:1:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(0): Sharp HDMI (DFP-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Sharp HDMI (DFP-0): 150 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): Sharp HDMI (DFP-0): Internal Single Link TMDS
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
(WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1920x1080i"; removing.
(WW) NVIDIA(0):
(WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to validate any modes; falling back to the default mode
(WW) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select".
(WW) NVIDIA(0):
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select"

No matter what mode I plug in I am getting the "No valid modes for" message.

Does this have to do with EDID (not sure EXACTLY what this is other than i'm guessing it's a method for a monitor to report what it's capabilities are to a connected device...and my TV is stupid and not reporting it's full/correct resolution).

I know this isn't exactly MythTV related and is probably simple, but i'm completely stumped, help?

Any assistance, info, or clues would be MOST helpful.

--Douglas Wagner, -> <- Close to having a great MythTV setup.