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r0b0t

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Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 505

[SOLVED] HDMI integrated in Intel while I want nVidia for FullHD TV

Hi guys,

First of all, an advice to everyone not to buy any shiny full-hd monitor for your laptop, they are extremely fragile even if you have a gorilla glass they are only protected form scratches not from physical damages , and this is the second monitor I screwed up (by basically doing nothing with a minimum amount of pressure on it) and I'm deciding to just not buy another one for replacement , an act of protest and hatred towards these kind of products.

Now the juice;
I have a dual (as many) Intel + nVidia with the HDMI integrated with the intel card, now the problem is that whenever I connect to my fullHD TV , if I force the resolution to fullHD the display will be blurry and unusable.

This happens because even if I force the laptop to use the nVidia card , when in HDMI it will always insist using the intel card which of course won't support the fullHD display, resulting in a half/working display that it's impossible to use.

The same goes also for the automatically detected display (non-HD) which in return won't fit well with my fullHD TV.

Is there any solution to it?
Thanks.

SOLUTION : well I guess it was a DE / WM related issue as it works perfect with lxde.
Note: actually not fully solved as the resolution is not fullHD, however the 1360x768 actually works...

Last edited by r0b0t (2017-04-20 22:23:48)

olive

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Re: [SOLVED] HDMI integrated in Intel while I want nVidia for FullHD TV

By Full HD you mean 1920x1080? This resolution should work on all non-antiquated system (problems can arise with resolution above that, due to compatibility issue). Firt ensure that you TV is indeed natively FullHD. Most televisions, even if there are not Full HD, accept 1920x1080 signals and downgrade it accordingly, but that give blurry results (especially for static images that contain text). Another problem could be post-processing. Check if you can disable it from your TV (it could be called "PC-mode").

r0b0t

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From: /tmp

Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 505

Re: [SOLVED] HDMI integrated in Intel while I want nVidia for FullHD TV

Yes it is 1920x1080.
No post processing so far.
Are you saying that with Intel I can get as well 1920x1080?

olive

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Re: [SOLVED] HDMI integrated in Intel while I want nVidia for FullHD TV

Yes it is 1920x1080.
No post processing so far.
Are you saying that with Intel I can get as well 1920x1080?

Yes 1920x1080 should work everywhere. How are you sure there is no postprocessing? HDMI is digital, there are no such things as "bad signal", either the signal is perfect or doesn't work at all. The blurry image must be how the TV interpret it.

r0b0t

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From: /tmp

Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 505

Re: [SOLVED] HDMI integrated in Intel while I want nVidia for FullHD TV

- How are you sure there is no postprocessing?
I'm not sure, I just searched for the option you mentioned and I didn't find anything..
Well, I guess, third crappy lcd it is...

r0b0t

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From: /tmp

Registered: 2009-05-24

Posts: 505

Re: [SOLVED] HDMI integrated in Intel while I want nVidia for FullHD TV

SOLUTION : bought another monitor which really supports fullhd.

Last edited by r0b0t (2017-05-14 13:26:05)