hardy heron, dell 6400 & wide screen TV

[bryn mitchell]

i am running hardy heron on a Dell inspiron 6400 and want to connect it to a wide screen panasonic HDTV via a VGA connection.
the closest resolution i can use is 1280x768 but it still leaves about 40% of the desktop display off the television display. it re-positions the task bar up the laptop monitor and shortens it so that it can be seen on the television display bu the rest of the desktop is lost on the TV.
the laptop is about 3 yrs old and hardy heron was installed thru XP home.
how can i fix this problemo to allow me to see all the desktop?

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[Paul Gear]

bryn mitchell wrote:
> i am running hardy heron on a Dell inspiron 6400 and want to connect it to a wide screen panasonic HDTV via a VGA connection.
> the closest resolution i can use is 1280x768 but it still leaves about 40% of the desktop display off the television display. it re-positions the task bar up the laptop monitor and shortens it so that it can be seen on the television display bu the rest of the desktop is lost on the TV.
> the laptop is about 3 yrs old and hardy heron was installed thru XP home.
> how can i fix this problemo to allow me to see all the desktop?
>

If this is a normal desktop, i suggest running a more recent distro than
hardy. For most desktop users, the latest Ubuntu version is usually
stable enough for everyday use. At the very least i'd suggest upgrading
to jaunty now.

Paul

[Paul Gear]

P.S. Not that this is a guarantee that your problem will be fixed...  It's just more likely that features which enable that sort of thing will be present on more recent distros.

[Barry Williams]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Paul Gear <pa...@libertysys.com.au> wrote:
> Paul Gear wrote:
>
> bryn mitchell wrote:
>
>
> i am running hardy heron on a Dell inspiron 6400 and want to connect it to a
> wide screen panasonic HDTV via a VGA connection.
> the closest resolution i can use is 1280x768 but it still leaves about 40%
> of the desktop display off the television display. it re-positions the task
> bar up the laptop monitor and shortens it so that it can be seen on the
> television display bu the rest of the desktop is lost on the TV.
> the laptop is about 3 yrs old and hardy heron was installed thru XP home.
> how can i fix this problemo to allow me to see all the desktop?
>
>

Connecting my PC to my samsung LCD TV I have to set the mode on my TV
to just scan so it takes the picture and manually scales it to fit
when I reboot my computer the TV automatically goes back to it's
preset 16:9 mode which has a similar problem to yours. So you might
want to check the settings on your TV
Barry

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