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I hook my TV up to my laptop with a VGA to HDMI adapter. My old laptop using nouveau driver with an nVidia 8600 card works fine. I can set the resolution to 1900x1080.
My new laptop using the Intel driver with am i915 card will only do 1024x786.
I created an xorg.conf file using the X -config xorg.conf command. The only difference in the two configs is the driver names and the Bus ID.
I even uninstalled the xf86-video-intelxxx package and still the same.
I am kind of kind of stuck on what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
But it still has black on both sides of the picture, were the old laptop does not. Is this a driver issue? If so how can change the driver and does anyone have a suggested driver for an Intel i915 card.
Pipe it to a file if you're blind with no screens. It should list available options, it's probably selecting the wrong one (debate-able) by default. Aka the highest COMMON resolution supported by ALL monitors. Some older GPUs can only do so many pixels though. For an old Dell Inspiron 1150 I have, 1280x800 was the best I could get on a 1600x900 display that has VGA input.
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