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Offline manit123

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1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« on: March 24, 2014, 02:01:02 AM »
i have a samsung LCD tv (http://www.samsung.com/africa_en/consumer/tv-audio-video/television/lcd-tv/LA32E420E2RXXA) connected via HDMI to Radeon HD5450 graphic card installed in PCI slot of my motherboard of my CPU .
I added xsetup to kernel line of boot entry so that i am asked about setting resolution at startup.
1366x768  - no such option appears .
i get 'unable to get monitor information' on running lxrandr.

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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2014, 05:41:00 AM »
There won't be a vesa setting for that resolution.  You will need to run Xorg.

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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2014, 07:09:29 AM »
lxrandr need Xorg to get info on resolution.
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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2014, 02:31:43 AM »
current situation
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$ ls /usr/local/tce.installed/
Xlibs                     curl                      gdk-pixbuf2               libasound                 lxrandr                   tree
Xorg-7.6-lib              dbus                      glib2                     libffi                    ncurses                   vim
Xprogs                    dbus-glib                 glibc_apps                libiw                     ncurses-common            wireless-3.0.21-tinycore
Xvesa                     dosfstools                glibmm                    liblzma                   ntfs-3g                   wireless_tools
atk                       e2fsprogs                 gnome-icon-theme          libnl                     openssl-1.0.0             wpa_supplicant
atkmm                     expat2                    gparted                   libnotify                 pango
bash                      firefox                   graphics-libs-1           libsigc++                 pangomm
cairo                     fltk-1.10                 gtk2                      libssl-0.9.8              parted
cairomm                   flwm_topside              gtkmm                     libxcb                    pixman
chntpw                    fontconfig                hicolor-icon-theme        libxml2                   shared-mime-info

$ ps -e
PID   USER     COMMAND
    1 root     init
    2 root     [kthreadd]
    3 root     [ksoftirqd/0]
    5 root     [kworker/u:0]
    6 root     [migration/0]
    7 root     [migration/1]
    9 root     [ksoftirqd/1]
   10 root     [kworker/0:1]
   11 root     [cpuset]
   12 root     [khelper]
   13 root     [netns]
   15 root     [sync_supers]
   16 root     [bdi-default]
   17 root     [kblockd]
   18 root     [ata_sff]
   19 root     [khubd]
   20 root     [kworker/1:1]
   21 root     [rpciod]
   23 root     [kswapd0]
   24 root     [ksmd]
   25 root     [khugepaged]
   26 root     [fsnotify_mark]
   27 root     [nfsiod]
   28 root     [crypto]
   49 root     [scsi_eh_0]
   50 root     [scsi_eh_1]
   51 root     [scsi_eh_2]
   52 root     [scsi_eh_3]
   57 root     [kworker/u:5]
   66 root     [kpsmoused]
   67 root     [kworker/1:2]
   93 root     /sbin/udevd --daemon
  221 root     [pccardd]
  227 root     [scsi_eh_6]
  228 root     [usb-storage]
  488 root     [ext4-dio-unwrit]
  496 root     [flush-8:16]
 2317 tc       -sh
 2473 root     Xvesa -br -screen 1024x768x32 -shadow -2button -mouse /dev/input/mice,5 -nolisten tcp -I
 2487 tc       flwm_topside
 2506 root     /sbin/udhcpc -b -i eth0 -x hostname box -p /var/run/udhcpc.eth0.pid
 2509 tc       aterm
 2510 tc       sh
 2576 root     [loop0]
 2626 tc       mnttool
 2653 root     [kworker/0:0]
 2963 root     [loop1]
 3560 root     [loop2]
 3615 root     [loop3]
 3656 root     [cfg80211]
 3694 root     [loop4]
 3695 root     [iwlagn]
 3740 root     [loop5]
 3795 root     [loop6]
 3829 root     wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /mnt/sdb1/uoxkgopf/wpa_configure.conf
 3837 root     [kworker/u:1]
 3839 root     udhcpc -x hostname sumeet -b -i wlan0 -p /var/run/udhcpc.wlan0.pid
 3897 root     [loop7]
 3950 root     [loop8]
 3995 root     [loop9]
 4038 root     [loop10]
 4081 root     [loop11]
 4124 root     [loop12]
 4200 root     [loop13]
 4204 root     /sbin/udevd --daemon
 4205 root     /sbin/udevd --daemon
 4252 root     [loop14]
 4288 tc       firefox
 4325 tc       ps -e
after installing Xorg-7.4 . I press ctrl+alt+backspace & run 'startx' . Still no change in lxrandr output .
« Last Edit: March 25, 2014, 02:34:23 AM by manit123 »

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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2014, 02:42:09 AM »
Xorg 7.4? WHich TC version are you using?
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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2014, 02:54:32 AM »
You are running Xvesa.


It might help if you also report the behavior of xrandr, each time you report about lxrandr.
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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2014, 03:08:25 AM »
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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2014, 03:14:35 AM »
$ version
4.7.7
'xrandr' - no such command

Xorg-7.6-bin.tcz not installed
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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2014, 03:16:35 AM »
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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2014, 03:27:30 AM »
According to your ps list you are running Xvesa, not Xorg. It is easy. xrandr doesn't work with Xvesa. Install Xorg-7.6.tcz
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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2014, 09:04:44 PM »
$ ps -e | grep -i x
  494 root     [ext4-dio-unwrit]
 4008 root     ntfs-3g -o noexec,rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096 /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3
 4344 root     /sbin/udhcpc -b -i eth0 -x hostname box -p /var/run/udhcpc.eth0.pid
 4808 root     /usr/local/bin/Xorg -nolisten tcp
 5566 tc       grep -i x
$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 640 x 400, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768
default connected 1024x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768        0.0*
   800x600         0.0 
   640x480         0.0 
   720x400         0.0 

now what should i do ?

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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2014, 09:08:21 PM »
If you are connecting via HDMI, be sure the VGA connector is not connected.

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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2014, 03:44:59 AM »
I have plugged it in graphic card though CRT is off . Will remove VGA cable , then report .

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Re: 1366x768 resolution on samsung TV connected via HDMI
« Reply #13 on: March 27, 2014, 01:38:14 AM »
Same result , even after removing VGA cable of CRT from graphic card.