[SOLVED] New Nvidia driver - no overscan compensation?

[CJ]

Ok, in that case it should be fairly straight forward, though you have to decide whether you want pixel-perfect (slightly smaller screen area) or scaling (might be a bit fuzzy, but will work with most apps and games).

I am going to continue on the assumption that you want pixel-perfect (if not, we change later):
From command, experiment with something like:

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nvidia-settings --assign 0/CurrentMetaMode="DFP-0: 1920x1080 { ViewPortOut=1880x1050+20+15 }"
The numbers are most likely not right, but let's see if we get close.
Let me know if this works, and if so, is the display still too big or too small... then we shall tweak.

Cheers!
CJ

[nixer]

Thank you a bunch CJ !!   

Your command made an immediate improvement.  All I did was to play with the numbers to find the "sweet spot" and everything fits on the screen.  I will try different programs and see if everything fits.

This is the command that has worked best so far, I had to change the "DFP-0" to "DFP-1":

nvidia-settings --assign 0/CurrentMetaMode="DFP-1: 1920x1080 { ViewPortOut=1820x1030+50+25 }"

[CJ]

Glad to hear it!

If you find that certain apps that you need does not play nice with this resolution (i.e. expand beyond the screen, right and down) and you want to use scaling instead, all you have to do is add a 'ViewPortIn=1920x10801' to your metamodes line.
As I said, you might lose a little sharpness.

Cheers!
CJ

[Topken]

And none of these options are working for me at all on my Panasonic Viera that has a 3% overscan that I can not remove via the hdtv options. and none of these metamodes are working for me at all. Its like they are not being used at all. I can not even get the resolution to the right 1366x768 res its putting it at 1280x720 and nothing I do seems to be working at all.

I could really use some help with this issue as its starting to get under my skin. I have even tried a different xorg.conf format and its like the settings are not being used at all by the drivers.

[CJ]

Did you try it directly from a command line? Something like...:

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nvidia-settings --assign 0/CurrentMetaMode="DFP-1: 1366x768 { ViewPortOut=1300x730+33+19 }"
You shall of course have to tweak the figures to fit your circumstances.
Also, you need to check if DFP-1 is your actual display and possible change accordingly. (Use command 'xrandr' to see what you have.)

Cheers!
CJ

[Topken]

Yeah tried that but did not work. I got around the issue by uninstalling the current nvidia drivers and installing version 295.75 from nvidia's website which helped big time.