I have this overscan problem as well.My configuration: main monitor DELL 1920x1200, second monitor - Panasonic Viera S1 TV connected via HDMI. Videocard - NVidia GeForce 210. I tried both nouveau and proprietary video drivers.
I have an AMD Radeon 6850 in my set up which is connected to my monitor via an hdmi cable. After installing the latest fglrx drivers, version 12.6, I need to drag the overscan slider all the way to the right to make the desktop properly fit my monitor. But now after every reboot the overscan image is very small and there is about a 2 inch large border around my display.
I have the same issue as this guy here
,but it seems his question is not getting answered any time soon, and my issue is rather urgent. So my solution is to try and set the AMD Overscan manually via terminal with a script on boot.
Went ahead and installed on my second machine downstairs which is attached to a 42 inch Samsung LCD TV via HDMI. Everything is running well except that there is an "overscan" issue that has half of the Left-hand panel with the icons cut off, and the entire top menu isn't showing.
On Windows the nVidia control panel has an option to correct for this.
I'm trying to re-implement the overscan compensation the nvidia drivers used to have, where the OS and all the apps, etc. think my screen resolution is 1280x720, but the video card scales it to 1220x680 before it's sent to my TV (where I can't disable overscan).
I'm stuck, but stuck at a very "clean" point.
Tried another forum (Precise) for an answer, but perhaps this one is more specific.
I bought a laptop with a ATI/AMD 6970 card. When rebooted into OO or PP the gamma is extremely light. If I start the Catalyst control center and then cancel it, it reverts to my custom settings. The settings are shown as saved properly, but not recognized on reboot.
I've been trying to turn off nvidia PowerMizer (that is set the performance level to 2 - max). I can do it with nvidia-settings, but it goes back to default after restart.
Well ever since I have used dual monitors with the NVIDIA X Server Settings program my xorg process has been crashing after a while, and its generally a pretty long while of like 6 hours afterwards. Before NVIDIA changed my xorg.conf file I only had xorg crash like twice in 2 months, I can't figure out what is going on.
I cannot save my "Configure Desktop" settings. I have 2 monitors and a Nvidia 8500. All was well under 11.1 but neither an upgrade or fresh install will save my settings.
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