[FIXED BUT NOT SOLVED] NVIDIA - Desktop shifted left off the screen...

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Hello Community!
For a pretty long time right now, I am trying to fix the video setup of my HTPC but without success. Because I'am run out of ideas, I really need Your help.
PROBLEM:
The desktop is shifted left off the screen, round about 100 Pixel.
It started some time in the past, while upgrading a one year old Ubuntu installation (NVDIA drivers). Because I couldn't fix it and also wanted to replace Ubuntu with ArchLinux, I performed a clean ArchLinux installation.
First I used the nouveau drivers ending up with the same problem. I read an configured using xrandr and cvt, but with no success. 
So I restored the system to a snapshot taken before X11 and nouveau drivers installations, thank's BTRFS, and installed the proprietary NVIDIA drivers ending up with the same problems. Again I tried all the tips and tricks found in the documentations and forums, used nvidia-xconfig, hand crafted the xorg.conf all with no success.
HARDWARE
The system is a MSI Media Live (http://www.msi.com/product/desktop/Media-Live.html)
. Support AMDR Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 and Sempron in the Socket AM2 package
. North Bridge: nVidia® C51PVG Chipset
. South Bridge: nVidia® MCP51 Chipset
. Graphics is Integrated NVIDIA GPU GeForce 6150 LE
. VGA, SCART and HDMI - Connectors
The display Problem is on VGA and HDMI now, where in the past the VGA was perfect. Therefor I connected and used the VGA port only, in all tests.
INSTALLATION HISTORY
2012-12-30 + Installation according ArchLinux install guide
2012-12-31 + pacman -S openssh
systemctl start sshd
2012-12-31 + pacman -S btrfs-progs
2012-12-31 pacman -S sudo
2012-12-31 + sudo pacman -S bash-completion
2013-01-03 + pacman -S rsync wget gptfdisk
2013-01-10 + pacman -Suy nvidia-304xx
2013-01-10 + pacman -Syu nvidia-304xx-utils
2013-01-10 + pacman -S xorg-server xorg-xinit xorg-server-utils
2013-01-10 + pacman -S mesa
2013-01-10 + pacman -S xorg-twm xorg-xclock xterm
2013-01-10 + pacman -S ttf-dejavu
2013-01-10 + pacman -Suy lxdm
2013-01-10 + systemctl enable lxdm.service
2013-01-10 + pacman -S xorg-xdpyinfo
2013-01-10 + pacman -S pkgtools
2013-01-10 + pacman -S pkgfile
2013-01-10 + pacman -S bc
As You can see, I installed only a minimal X11 environment for test. The lxdm display manger shows up but with very small font and shifted to the left. Only if I force a resolution of 1024x768 the image is centered on screen/tv but still the very small font. Obviously not a solution for a HTPC.
Here are the xorg.conf and the Xorg.0.log of my last test configuration.
xorg.xonf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 304.64 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-12) Tue Oct 30 12:04:46 PDT 2012
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 100 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
In the Section "ServerLayout" I modified the line
     Screen      0  "Screen0" 100 0
by adding the 100 0 at the end.
Xorg.0.log
[ 12.997]
X.Org X Server 1.13.1
Release Date: 2012-12-13
[ 12.997] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 12.997] Build Operating System: Linux 3.7.0-1-ARCH x86_64
[ 12.997] Current Operating System: Linux media-pc 3.6.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 18 08:57:15 CET 2012 x86_64
[ 12.997] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=0f1f870d-ccaa-4bc2-b149-1792f0c69fce
[ 12.997] Build Date: 16 December 2012 04:45:14PM
[ 12.997]
[ 12.997] Current version of pixman: 0.28.2
[ 12.997] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 12.997] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 12.998] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Jan 18 13:18:12 2013
[ 13.065] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[ 13.065] (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 13.066] (==) ServerLayout "Layout0"
[ 13.066] (**) |-->Screen "Screen0" (0)
[ 13.066] (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
[ 13.066] (**) | |-->Device "Device0"
[ 13.066] (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
[ 13.066] (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
[ 13.066] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 13.066] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 13.066] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[ 13.213] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/" does not exist.
[ 13.213] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 13.213] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/" does not exist.
[ 13.213] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 13.222] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/".
[ 13.222] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 13.222] (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/").
[ 13.222] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/".
[ 13.223] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 13.223] (Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/").
[ 13.223] (==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/misc/,
/usr/share/fonts/TTF/
[ 13.223] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 13.223] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[ 13.223] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
[ 13.223] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
[ 13.223] (II) Loader magic: 0x7fcc40
[ 13.223] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 13.223] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 13.223] X.Org Video Driver: 13.1
[ 13.223] X.Org XInput driver : 18.0
[ 13.223] X.Org Server Extension : 7.0
[ 13.226] (--) PCI:*(0:0:5:0) 10de:0241:1462:3290 rev 162, Mem @ 0xfd000000/16777216, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xfc000000/16777216, BIOS @ 0x????????/131072
[ 13.226] (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
[ 13.226] Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension
[ 13.226] Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
[ 13.226] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
[ 13.226] Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension XTEST
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension SYNC
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension RENDER
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension RANDR
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension RECORD
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension DPMS
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension X-Resource
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension XVideo
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI
[ 13.227] Initializing built-in extension DRI2
[ 13.227] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 13.414] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 15.559] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 15.559] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 15.559] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 15.559] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 304.64 Tue Oct 30 11:18:32 PDT 2012
[ 15.560] Loading extension GLX
[ 15.560] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 15.560] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 15.868] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 15.868] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 15.868] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 15.868] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 304.64 Tue Oct 30 10:59:51 PDT 2012
[ 15.868] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[ 15.868] (++) using VT number 7
[ 15.875] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[ 15.875] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[ 15.984] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[ 16.008] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 16.008] compiled for 1.13.1, module version = 1.0.0
[ 16.008] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 16.008] (II) Loading sub module "wfb"
[ 16.008] (II) LoadModule: "wfb"
[ 16.008] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
[ 16.025] (II) Module wfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 16.025] compiled for 1.13.1, module version = 1.0.0
[ 16.025] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 16.025] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[ 16.025] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[ 16.025] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[ 16.025] (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[ 16.025] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
[ 16.025] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[ 16.025] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[ 16.026] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
[ 19.582] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Display (Acer AT3220 (CRT-0)) does not support NVIDIA 3D
[ 19.582] (II) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Vision stereo.
[ 19.584] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 6150 LE (C51) at PCI:0:5:0 (GPU-0)
[ 19.584] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 262144 kBytes
[ 19.584] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.51.28.56.19
[ 19.584] (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
[ 19.584] (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on GeForce 6150 LE at PCI:0:5:0
[ 19.584] (--) NVIDIA(0): Acer AT3220 (CRT-0) (connected)
[ 19.584] (--) NVIDIA(0): TV-0
[ 19.584] (--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-0
[ 19.584] (--) NVIDIA(0): Acer AT3220 (CRT-0): 350.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 19.585] (--) NVIDIA(0): TV-0: 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 19.585] (--) NVIDIA(0): TV encoder: (null)
[ 19.585] (--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-0: 310.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 19.585] (--) NVIDIA(0): DFP-0: Internal Single Link TMDS
[ 19.585] (**) NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges from the EDID for display
[ 19.585] (**) NVIDIA(0): device Acer AT3220 (CRT-0) (Using EDID frequencies has
[ 19.585] (**) NVIDIA(0): been enabled on all display devices.)
[ 19.585] (==) NVIDIA(0):
[ 19.585] (==) NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select"
[ 19.585] (==) NVIDIA(0): will be used as the requested mode.
[ 19.585] (==) NVIDIA(0):
[ 19.585] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
[ 19.585] (II) NVIDIA(0): "CRT-0:nvidia-auto-select"
[ 19.585] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1360 x 768
[ 19.587] (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to support custom viewPortOut 1360 x 765 +0 +1
[ 19.588] (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to support custom viewPortOut 1360 x 765 +0 +1
[ 19.589] (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (49, 48); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
[ 19.589] (--) NVIDIA(0): option
[ 19.589] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[ 19.599] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; the daemon
[ 19.599] (II) NVIDIA(0): may not be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X
[ 19.599] (II) NVIDIA(0): configuration option may not be set correctly. When the
[ 19.599] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI event daemon is available, the NVIDIA X driver will
[ 19.599] (II) NVIDIA(0): try to use it to receive ACPI event notifications. For
[ 19.599] (II) NVIDIA(0): details, please see the "ConnectToAcpid" and
[ 19.599] (II) NVIDIA(0): "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in Appendix B: X
[ 19.599] (II) NVIDIA(0): Config Options in the README.
[ 19.599] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "CRT-0:nvidia-auto-select"
[ 19.754] Loading extension NV-GLX
[ 19.797] (==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps
[ 19.797] (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
[ 19.797] (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
[ 19.798] (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
[ 19.798] Loading extension NV-CONTROL
[ 19.799] Loading extension XINERAMA
[ 19.799] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
[ 19.799] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 19.799] (II) Module "dri2" already built-in
[ 19.799] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[ 19.799] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2] VDPAU driver: nvidia
[ 19.799] (--) RandR disabled
[ 19.817] (II) Initializing extension GLX
[ 20.522] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event3)
only removed the input detection stuff
Question
How can I shift the display to the right?
Many thanks for any hints.
rale
Last edited by rale (2013-01-19 11:46:14)

Answer 1

Mr.Elendig wrote:Switch to dvi/hdmi if you can. Else you have to play with screen calibration etc.
Thank You Mr.Elendig!
The simplest answer often is best. After I connected a TFT display, instead of my TV, I was able to calibrate the screen output and got the desktop shifted. Knowing that, I tried the settings of my TV again. There is a hard to find option for calibration wich is set to automatic but doesn't do it. Trying to turn it of did the trick. Even the option stays on automatic and even the display format is fixed to 4:3 instead of 16:9, finaly the TV adjusted the display correctly.
None the less, the problem not to be able to shift the desktop using the screen paramters in xorg.conf remains.
Thanks
rale