HDMI connection to TV

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Could someone please point me in the right direction. I would like to connect my laptop to a TV using the HDMI link with separate x screens. I am running openSUSE 11.3 with the NVIDIA 256.35. I would just like to simply connect when watching iPlayer etc.

I would also need to adjust the screen size on the TV as the screen doesn’t quiet fit, it overlaps the sides a bit.

Thank you

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After some tinkering I got the display how I wanted it using the Nvidia X server settings GUI. I should have known that I guess. There are now still two things that I need to get working:

  1. How to adjust/scale the screen to fit on the TV without overlapping the sides? Not that it matters but the TV is a TX-32LZD85 FULL HD.
  2. The sound, how can I get Kaffeine or Mplayer to use the HDMI sound output? I can get a sound from the TV using Phonon test to confirm it is connected. But how do I tell the programme to use it? I seem to need ALSA with the outut hdmi:CARD=intel, dev=0.
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Try setting the display to the TV native resolution - if in clone mode, your laptop should support it also, else it will not sync.

Check your TV resolution. On my Phillips 32" the nvidia driver won’t support the native resolution stated in the manual (1366 x something), I have to run at 1024 x 762 on the VGA port - your’s is HDMI, it’s might make a difference. The same issue happens with the windows XP driver, so…

To work ok with xbmc (mediacenter) I had to use the aspect correction setting.

Also check if the TV is not set to superzoom or such, that crop the borders.

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Thanks for that, I’m able to play movies off my hard disk with xbmc abd able to scale the screen to fit my TV. I also got the sound working, but nor 100% as the theme sounds do not work through the HDMI but at least the media sounds play through the TV. However I cant get it to play DVD’s off the disk? The disks work in MPlayer and Kaffeine.