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Date:      Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:10:04 -0800
From:      "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
To:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD && HDMI TV
Message-ID:  <10861.1352599804@tristatelogic.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121110122600.GA3426@tinyCurrent>

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In message <20121110122600.GA3426@tinyCurrent>, 
Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:

>I have installed xrandr 1.3.x but do not see how to use this with the
>external VGA TV; my laptop uses 1024x600 and the TV has 1920x1080
>resolution; when I connect the TV before starting X11/KDE both screens
>show the same picture with 800x600 resolution; can you please give an
>example how to use 1920x1080 on the TV? Thanks

Did you try this?

  xrandr --size 1920x1080

If so, what happened when you did?

Also, if you just run xrandr with no options, then what prints out?

(Hint:  The output should show you all available resolutions for each
screen you have attached.)



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