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From: Tommy Bongaerts <tommy.bongaerts@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] External monitor is stretched 4:3
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:11:38
Message-Id: 20121130081001.GA4908@mordor.homescum.be
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] External monitor is stretched 4:3 by Grant
1 On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:27:38PM -0800, Grant wrote:
2 > I've connected my laptop to a lot of HDTV's and whenever I switch
3 > the output to display on both screens, black bars appear on the
4 > left and right of my laptop screen so it displays at 4:3, and the
5 > HDTV output is 16:9 but looks horizontally stretched. Does
6 > anyone know how to keep the output at 16:9 on both screens?
7 >
8 > - Grant
9
10 You don't give a lot of information here. Are you using mirrored
11 screen or an extended desktop? Also what is the desktop environment or
12 window manager you use?
13
14 On thing that might help is to provide the output of xrandr.
15
16 --
17 Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do
18 is smoke pot and smell bad.
19 ~ Eric Cartman

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Re: [gentoo-user] External monitor is stretched 4:3 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>