Mac Mini & screen resolutions?

[Wotan31]

Hello, I have a late 2006 Mac Mini (1.66 Core Duo, 2 GB, GMA950).

I'm using it with a 40" Sony XBR6 monitor (1920x1080 native resolution) and the bluetooth kbd and mouse.

For some reason, some of the screen resolutions listed in Display Preferences are not scaled properly on the screen. The edges get cut off slightly. The top menu bar ends up being cut off entirely, and I only see the top 1/2 of the Dock. This happens even when I'm running at 1920x1080 which is this monitor's native resolution!!

Only a few of the bizarro resolutions end up being scaled properly to the screen size, right now I'm using 1344x756. It's far less crisp tho than the 1920x1080 native resolution.

Any idea how to correct this? Is there some updated monitor "driver" I need to download from somewhere? Surely I'm not the only one using a late 2006 Mac Mini with a 1080p Sony tv set?

 

[flopticalcube]

Do you have Overscan unchecked in the System Preferences->Displays->Options panel?

 

[txnoob]

UNChecking overscan helped on my 42" Panasonic. But still some of them were messed up. Some TVs actually allow you set viewable area, but just like any monitor they aren't all going to work with the size of the screen.

 

[jnc]

Let me guess, you're using HDMI. Try VGA. Seen this issue raised so many times...

 

[surroundfan]

Have you got the 1:1 pixel mapping option turned on on the telly?

Settings -> Screen -> Display Area -> Full Pixel

 

[Krustey]

Have you got the 1:1 pixel mapping option turned on on the telly?

Settings -> Screen -> Display Area -> Full Pixel

Agree with that. My 52" XBR4 works great with full pixel set on the TV and overscan checked on my mini. I'm using mini DVI to HDMI btw.