Disclaimer: I cannot remember how I solved this - long time ago - I hope my comentary might give you some ideas.
I had similar problem in the past - caused by TV lying about its screen resolution. It was one of the cheap but expensive + early Visio TVs. There was sticker on the back advertising the "greatest and truest HD TV ever". Needless to say the panel was not even HD but some obscure 1013-ish to 698-ish and of course it advertised itself as 1280x720 and it was 6b panel with pretty bad dithering too. I have a feeling that I was able to override the reported resolution in X device configs somehow. I remember upgrading to newer distro about 2+ years ago - I could not get it working anymore. My wife solved it for me by getting cheap, but this time not so expensive + late full HD + not-Visio TV with real 1920x1080 resolution reported. That was the end of that struggle for me. Hope it helps you somehow, Tomas On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 16:38 -0700, Dick Steffens wrote: > The system is a Lenovo M58P with an nVidia GeForce GT 610 using its > HDMI > port. The OS is Xbuntu 18.04. > > I'm trying to deal with the issue of the top and sides of the > desktop > are outside of the TV frame. I tried the instructions at: > > https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2380987 > > and have the same error as experienced by the poster. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > $ xrandr > HDMI-0 connected (followed by a bunch of stuff) > > $sudo xrandr --output HDMI-0 --set underscan on --set "underscan > vborder" 30 --set "underscan hborder" 30 > X Error of failed request: BadName (named color or font does not > exist) > Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR) > Minor opcode of failed request: 11 (RRQueryOutputProperty) > Serial number of failed request: 31 > Current serial number in output stream: 31 > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------ > > Additional searches don't seem to address the problem. > > Ideas? > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug