Connecting Acer Aspire/Lubuntu to a TV

Asked by Pedro Albuquerque

Hi, I'm trying to use my old Acer Aspire as a media center using LUbuntu.

Everything is great except for one thing, the image on the TV has a black bar on the right side.
I tried ArandR, but it only shows default monitor.

The connection is made by a VGA cable.

How can I fix this, please?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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What is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a; xrandr

Thanks

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Pedro Albuquerque (pmralbuquerque) said :
#2

Sorry for the delay. Here it is:

pedro@pedro-Aspire-3630:~$ sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a; uname -a;xandr
[sudo] password for pedro:
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 661/741/760 PCI/AGP or 662/761Gx PCIE VGA Display Adapter
       vendor: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm agp agp-3.0 vga_controller cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:e8000000-efffffff memory:e2100000-e211ffff ioport:9000(size=128)
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty
Linux pedro-Aspire-3630 3.13.0-35-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 15 01:58:01 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
O comando 'xandr' não foi encontrado. Referia-se a:
 Comando 'xrandr' do pacote 'x11-xserver-utils' (main)
xandr: comando não encontrado

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Those SiS GPUs can be a nightmare in Linux. The only way I have seen them work is to spend lots of time hacking out an xorg.conf file to setup the display.

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Pedro Albuquerque (pmralbuquerque) said :
#4

OK, where can I find that file? and an example, if possible?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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It's not a default file as udev does a decent job of detection. You will find lots of examples on the web. You will need:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

To get write access. If you get no Xorg on reboot then you will need to drop to TTY1 using CTRL + ALT + F1 and rename the file using:

sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.old

Then reboot

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Pedro Albuquerque (pmralbuquerque) said :
#6

OK, thank you.
Mark this as answered, if you please.
Regards.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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It's your question dude. Only you can mark it as solved

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Pedro Albuquerque (pmralbuquerque) said :
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Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.