Ubuntu Multimedia :: Disable Overscan With ATI Drivers?
May 11, 2010
When I first installed Ubuntu, I installed the ATI drivers with Catalyst Control Center, too. I believe the next time I restarted my computer, it was overscanned. It had the 2 inch border around my display. It was terrible, and I wanted to stop using Ubuntu because I couldn't find a fix. I finally removed the drivers through the terminal (don't remember how) and the border was gone.
The problem is, I don't have any actual drivers for this card installed. It's a Radeon HD 4650. I was thinking of trying: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RadeonDriver
Would the be a way to remove overscan with that? Or is there a way with ATI's closed source drivers I had the first time? Ubuntu crashes sometimes and the screen goes all weird, which I'm pretty sure is from the video card. I also can't see the boot splash for Ubuntu when starting up the computer, which I've heard can be caused by your video card.
I'd like to have the drivers for my card, but not have to worry about the damn 2 inch overscan.
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Jun 23, 2011
I have Googled. I have searched these forums and others. I have ripped my hair out in frustration. As many are aware, custom resolutions- "What the hell" by "that's just messed up" or "Jesus Christ" by "you've got to be kidding"- are very hard to set under the new "xorg.conf isn't really used" paradigm. This should not be. Many Ubuntu users are running the OS on displays with either nonstandard display resolutions or devices which overscan the display but do not offer a 1:1 pixel display setting- such as myself, on my 50" Samsung 1080p DLP television, connected via its HDMI port.
After more than a year trying to find a hard-and-fast process for fixing this overscan problem (note that I did not say "a hard-and-fast FIX for this problem"), I have decided to turn to the collective wisdom of the Ubuntu user community in an effort to put this issue to bed for good. To that end, I create this thread.
Recent research via the web has led me to believe that the problem lies in the X server not being aware of any sort of valid modeline for my- or your- nonstandard resolution. I am well-aware that each solution for each user will be different; if you're reading this, you're probably a geek like me in the first place, and your chops are more than sufficient to tackle both biting off this huge issue and chewing it.
My question to the community is this: How do I determine the correct modeline to add to xorg.conf, how do I make it available to the X server, what do I need to do to format the modeline in a valid way in xorg.conf (if necessary), and how do I make it appear in the list of valid resolutions when I run nvidia-settings (or whatever the command is)?
Keep in mind, I'm more interested in establishing the correct pipeline for fixing the problem and allowing arbitrary resolutions to the limit of the given device's capacity, rather than an exact solution for my particular hardware. In other words, I don't want an exact answer for my situation; what I'm looking for is a method for finding the proper solution given situations similar to mine.
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Jul 25, 2010
There's several threads dealing with overscan, but I've got an interesting twist in my setup that (I believe) is putting a kink into the proposed solutions. I'm trying to set up a media center PC with Ubuntu 10.~. The motherboard has built-in ATI graphics (3300 series), and connects to my television (Panasonic capable of 1080i) via HDMI. As can be expected, the overscan makes the top and bottom bars nearly invisible (as well as a portion of the sides).
When I run the Catalyst Control Center, it informs me that the monitor is a projector, not a TV. Try as I might, I can't convince the thing it's attached to a TV. When I run "aticonfig --tv-info", I am informed that a TV is not connected.
One question I could ask, though: does it matter? The reason I'm asking is that I can't find the "Configuration" menu option in the CCC that all the other threads talk about. I know where the little black triangle menu is, but there's no "Configuration" item in it. There's also (as best as I can tell) no way of adjusting overscan for a digital projector.
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I have an HTPC with an onboard ATI video chipset but for hardware acceleration's sake, I installed a GeForce 9500GT video card. Everything works quite well, except for the overscan issue. I've installed the latest nvidia binary drivers (manually) but I don't see any options in nvidia-settings to solve this overscan issue.
Here is my xorg.conf file:
Code:
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 260.19.21 (buildmeister@builder103.nvidia.com) Thu Nov 4 20:57:26 PDT 2010
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
[Code]...
I tried adding that ModeLine line myself (using xrandr and gtf) but that fails too. I've scoured the web and these forums, and I've seen some overscan issues reported but with no solution in sight.
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Jan 4, 2011
I've got 10.10 up and running like a champ. Haven't done much in it, but all was well. After a little while I went in to turn the cool effects on, and it told me I needed a driver for my ATI card so I said go for it. It ended up putting Catalyst Control Center in for me. That's all fine and dandy except on the windows side I can get into an area that allows me to adjust overscan and turn it off (its a slider for under and overscan).
This version wont seem to let me do that, so now I'm stuck with either NOT a full screen, or no ability to have fun graphic effects. While your here, how can I change the data files which I think ubuntu refers to as your /home folder (documents pictures etc) to a different location? Windows7 and Ubuntu need to see the files in the same places so I don't have to have two working sets of files.
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The only reason I need the proprietary drivers is to use two monitors.
I am going crazy, I have tested everything I have found on the web. I have tried all the nvidia drivers version, I have tried envyng, ... but nvidia do not work!!
I am trying Xinerama with nv, but it does not work either!!!
Here is my xorg.conf file in which I have tried to use nv driver to set dual monitor. X fails to load and it says that screen 0 is deleted, that devices are found but there are no matches in the config file. Any clue?
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
[Code]....
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Code:
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Error: option --enable-monitor is not supported when RandR 1.2 is enabled!
[code]....
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Code:
$ alsamixer
AlsaMixer v1.0.20 (Press Escape to quit)
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Code:
Errors during DKMS module removal
Errors during DKMS module removal
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