Re: [Hampshire] Laptop display to TV.

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Author: Clive Woodfine
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Laptop display to TV.
2009/8/28 Hugo Mills <hugo@???>:

>> From ifconfig.
>
>   I think you mean xorg.conf. ifconfig is for managing network
> devices... :)


Yes, a slip of the brain.

>   I don't know if the nVidia drivers support XRandR, but you could
> try playing around with that. For starters, plug into the TV and run
> xrandr to see what options you have available to you. You can then try
> something like:


Running xrandr gives (whether connected to the TV or not)

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 800
default connected 1280x800+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1280x800       50.0*
   1152x768       51.0
   1024x768       52.0
   800x600        53.0     54.0
   640x480        55.0
   640x384        56.0
   576x384        57.0
   512x384        58.0
   400x300        59.0     60.0
   320x240        61.0


Trying variations of your suggested command shows nothing on the TV. I
will have to search Google a bit more.

Hugo, many thanks for your help it has shown me a command I knew
nothing about before.

Clive Woodfine