[ubuntu-uk] Help buying a LCD TV

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From: Chris Jones <chris.jones at canonical.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 2:05 pm
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help buying a LCD TV
To: British Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>

> Hi
> 
> Adam Bagnall wrote:
> > great. Just be warned you'll need a vga cable or HDMI -> DVI 
> cable. If 
> > going for the latter cable option be aware that I couldnt get 
> it to work 
> > correctly under Ubuntu using an NVidia graphics card. VGA 
> cable works 
> 
> That's quite surprising, HDMI and DVI should be easily 
> converted, since
> HDMI's video is just DVI. FWIW I have the HDMI port of my PS3 
> connectedto a DVI monitor (a Dell thing) and it works perfectly.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Chris Jones
>   cmsj at canonical.com
>    www.canonical.com
> 
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The problem was that my gfx card was doing some wierd scaling. The resolution on the screen was 1280x768, but my desktop was at 800x600 and being scaled by my card to the output resolution. I looked all through xorg.conf and there was nothing about scaling, virtual resolutions or metamodes so I don't have a clue what was going on, I guess it's just some wierd nvidia thing. Under windows DVI -> HDMI cable worked fine. I'm just using standard DVI -> VGA cable atm which works fine under Ubuntu and I probably wouldnt be able to tell the difference anyway.
 
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