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Rouzes

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Registered: 2010-04-29

Posts: 9

Laptop to HDTV / resolution problem

When I hook my laptop up to my hdtv and startx, X starts at a wrong resolution, how would I go about fixing this?

hunttuch

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Registered: 2010-05-10

Posts: 2

Re: Laptop to HDTV / resolution problem

You could try out xrandr or lxrandr (a really nice frontend) to set the proper resolution.
A simple

xrandr --output LVDS --auto --output HDMI-0 --auto

worked for me. Get the right outputs by running xrandr without any parameters.

Rouzes

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Registered: 2010-04-29

Posts: 9

Re: Laptop to HDTV / resolution problem

That command didn't work for me, but:

xrandr -s 1920x1080

did what I wanted.