Questions tagged [vga-cable]
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USB to VGA on Linux
I've been offered a Macbook Pro mid-2012. Although it wouldn't have been my first choice it's still a great piece of hardware, only problem for me is that it only has a single Thunderbolt port allowing me to plug only one external monitor by…
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xrandr-mediated correction of VGA overscan on external computer monitor
When I employ an external monitor (Dell E207WFP) as the display device for my laptop computer, about 10 pixels are truncated from the left edge of the screen, which I believe is a consequence of a phenomenon known as overscan (the monitor is…
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connecting laptop to LCD TV via VGA cable
I'm trying to connect my laptop (Acer Aspire 5315 having Ubuntu 13.04) to Samsung LCD HDTV. I connected the VGA cable; one end on my laptop VGA socket & the other on the TV VGA socket. But
when I boot my laptop, nothing appears on the TV as well as…
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Linux Mint 16 display resolution and monitor
I am using Linux Mint 16 and I have two questions.
For some reason I appear to have a screen resolution way larger than my screen. When I was opening settings, the settings were appearing in an inaccessible part of the screen. Why wasn't this…
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