[mdlug] Anyone using an HDTV as a monitor?

[David Lane]

I got a Wide screen Samsung and every thing is stretched. And the DVD player Xine does not play movies.

David


----- Original Message ----
From: "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com>
To: Mdlug (E-mail) <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 8:56:36 AM
Subject: [mdlug] Anyone using an HDTV as a monitor?


Spent a few minutes last night plugging in the laptop to our HDTV (it
 has a VGA
input). It's a Syntax LT32HV, 1366x768 pixels. Using the
 "nvidia-settings" program,
I was able to get up to 1280x768, which looked quite nice. Apparently,
 however, it's
possible to get 'pixel-exact' representation, so that nothing's
 stretched. Anyone
have any experience with that?

 From what I've been able to gather, if I edit the xorg.conf file and
 add an appropriate
mode (without timings), it has a chance of working. I've also found
 some mode timings that
might work. Apparently the fact that 1366 is not an exact multiple of 8
 can be a problem;
some people do 1360 or 1368.

 It's only a toy, unfortunately. The onboard video card only has 8MB of
 VRAM, so
I can't play 3D games at 1280x720 or anything like that. It's got a
 1.6MHz P4-M,
no slouch but there's no chance it could play HD movies. But it might
 be fun to
surf the web or whatever with it...

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                              (313) 227-2317

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