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ohnolawl
Asked: 2012-05-13 08:12:31 +0800 CST

Trying to hook up an external monitor to netbook

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When I plug the external monitor up to my netbook it isn't found. I restart with them connected and it displays on the external monitor, but in the wrong resolution, shifted ~100 pixels to the right, and in a slightly brownish hue. I've tried using xrandr but it always gives me an error stating that

xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default

The netbook's original monitor has the resolution of 1024x600 (16:9) and the monitor has 1600x900(16:9), but when I restart with them connected the default resolution of the netbook itself changes to 1024x768(4:3).

Does anyone know how to fix this problem? I have an integrated Intel chip if that helps.

xrandr resolution 12.04 external-monitor vga

1 Answers

  1. OP answered:

    Ended up using arandr, a gui for xrandr, and almost fixed it, the rest is likely a driver problem.

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