Nvidia Control Panel SOLVED

[buschbarber]

I have an Nvidia 9800GTX+ hooked to a Sony 50" HDTV at 1900x1080. I installed the recommended Nvidia 180 drivers, but I cannot find the Resize the Display controls in the Nvidia Settings. I need to Shrink the Desktop to fit the 50" display.

[razy60]

Hi,Have you tried to set the wide screen option on your TV from full to Dot To Dot, this worked for me on a wide screen TV.

Raz

[buschbarber]

Thanks for the reply. I have a Sony SRXD Rear Projection HDTV. I am not sure if it has a setting as you describe, but I will check when I get home.

I am currently dual booting with Windows 7 64bit. Windows 7 has a Control Panel setting called Resize the Display. I use the mouse to move Scroll like bars that allows me to reduce the Overscan so that the Desktop fits the 50" display. I believe in Ubuntu 9.04 there was a setting like this. At that time, I had both the 20" monitor and the 50" HDTV hooked up and I used DualView.

[DarkChild]

I have an Nvidia 9800GTX+ hooked to a Sony 50" HDTV at 1900x1080. I installed the recommended Nvidia 180 drivers, but I cannot find the Resize the Display controls in the Nvidia Settings. I need to Shrink the Desktop to fit the 50" display.

Hello buschbarber.

Please look at the screen shot below for an example of where you can change your screen options to fit your hd tv. You can find your "NVIDIA X Server Settings" in "Systems>Administration>NVIDIA X Server Settings.


darkchild666

[buschbarber]

Yes!! I am aware of the Nvidia-Settings, however, I do not want to lower the resolution. I want to stay at 1900x1080 and just reduce the Overscan so that I can see the 4 edges of the Desktop. As it is, I cannot see the menus at the top and bottom of the Desktop.

In Windows XP and Windows 7, I can choose Resize the Display, from the Nvidia Control Panel, and Shrink the Desktop to fit my 50" HDTV display. The resolution is still 1080p.

[buschbarber]

I did try reducing the resolution to 1600x1050 and set the GPU Scaling to Centered. The entire Desktop does fit within the 50" display, but it leaves 2" on either side, blank, and cuts off a slight bit of the bottom of the Desktop.

[Cell]

Might have to tweak your xorgconf file....I'm basing this of my experience with ATI.

[buschbarber]

I am not very Linux savvy, so I am not sure what to edit in that file.

I got turned on to Ubuntu at a time when my Windows XP Pro machine was dead slow. Windows 7 has improved things quite a bit, but I like the idea of Open Source.

[triple777]

Before you installed the driver did the desktop fit and once you installed the driver does the text look like crap and you can't get the screen to fit? If so you have to connect the LCD TV to a computer with Windows

run Phoenix EDID designer, run the registry option under tools and find your display (extracts it out of the registry). If you don't see it you have to go to regedit hklm system currentcontrolset enum display and delete all the displays and reboot. It will show up after you reboot. Now run Phoenix again, run tools, extract select your LCD and click on Extract EDID, click on file, take the check out of read only, on the General tab look at EDID Extensions and change it to 0. Export it to your desktop (.raw) format. Copy it to a usb key and place it in your linux home folder and rename it to .edid instead of raw. Open up a term and sudo cp myedid.edid /etc/X11 assuming you named the file myedid.

then sudo nvidia-settings

click on resolution and save to xorg and click on preview, this will let you add to the config file.

go down to device and after the name of the device add:

Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-1:/etc/X11/myedid.edid"
EndSection

Reboot and you should be good to go.

If you boot and can't get back into x

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

In Nvidia's efforts to hold your hand they slip sometime and you fall with them

[Cell]

this might have some relevance...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=944148

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/L ... index.html