hardy heron, dell 6400 & wide screen TV

[Barry Williams]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Paul Gear <paul at libertysys.com.au> wrote:
> Paul Gear wrote:
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> bryn mitchell wrote:
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> 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