The issue is the following: i nvidia-304-updates - NVIDIA legacy binary driver - version 304.117
The legacy driver is version 304. But nvidia-settings has version 331. In the link, tey recommend downgrading nvidia-settings, but I think it would be interesting for me to try to upgrade the driver, because it seems to support Underscan (as Overscan compensation). Probably it could solve the following issues that I have with my television set: Currently I am using a SEG Nevada television set as Monitor, but that one has the issue that it crops the image which is displayed on the screen in 720p mode. This is called Overscan and its purpose was for old (analog) signals to hide the borders that might not look nice, but today in the digital age the feature has become obsolete, because all pixels even at the border are expected to look nice (and when using a computer, they are even required as there are the taskbars, etc.). See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan Good televisions make that feature configurable: When disabled, all pixels are displayed and the image is not cropped. Unfortunately I can't find any setting to disable Overscan at the television set, even not in the secret menu. The TV service menu can be accessed by pressing "MENU" and then "9" "3" "0" "1". Menu entries can be selected with the curser keys "UP" and "DOWN" and entered with "RIGHT". There is also an entry EEPROM edit, but I will better leave my hands off until I know what the numbers there stand for. If someone can give me a hint how to disable Overscan, please let me know. With Ubuntu 12.04 I used as workaround the resolution 1024x768 which is not affected by the overscan issue and displays all pixels. Unfortunately the aspect ratio was not correct and pixels were not sqares, so I would prefer to use 1280x768 without Overscan or (if not possible) to compensate Overscan by leaving the hidden (non displayed) border area of the display unused, if possible. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-settings in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313274 Title: After upgrading to 14.04, nvidia-settings crashes with "BadValue" X Window System error Status in “nvidia-settings” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: After upgrading to 14.04 the screen resolution is not as I want and changing with nvidia-settings is not possible, because the program crashes when applying new settings. michael@quad:~$ nvidia-settings ERROR: Error querying target relations The program 'nvidia-settings' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'. (Details: serial 738 error_code 2 request_code 158 minor_code 25) (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it. To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.) michael@quad:~$ The crash occurs when using the "Apply" button. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: nvidia-settings 331.20-0ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Apr 27 09:34:38 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-05-11 (715 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423) SourcePackage: nvidia-settings UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-26 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-settings/+bug/1313274/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
