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My TV is a Philips 19PFL4322. It's native resolution is 1440x900 . My laptop's graphics card is a ATI Radeon HD 3650, using the open source radeon driver on X.org server 1.10.

If I connect them via VGA in Linux, or via anything in Windows, it displays correctly at that resolution.

If I connect it via HDMI in Linux, it defaults to a 1024x768 resolution, and GUI tools will only allow me to set it up to 1360x768, all of which look pretty bad on it.

If I force the issue by generating a modeline using cvt 1400 900 and then setting that as the mode using xrandr, I get no output on that monitor.

When connnected via VGA, Linux correctly identifies it as a Philips 19" TV. When connected via HDMI, it misidentifies it as an 18" TV.

How can I get the monitor to display correctly on Linux using HDMI?

EDIT: xrandr output. VGA-0 and HDMI-0 are both my TV, LVDS is my laptop display, 1280x960 which is listed under HDMI-0 is not a valid output for my TV. 1440x900 which isn't listed is a valid output.

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2880 x 900, maximum 8192 x 8192 VGA-0 connected 1440x900+1440+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 410mm x 257mm 1440x900 59.9*+ 1360x768 59.8 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 LVDS connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 367mm x 23000mm 1440x900 60.8*+ 1280x854 59.9 1280x800 59.8 1280x720 59.9 1152x768 59.8 1024x768 59.9 800x600 59.9 848x480 59.7 720x480 59.7 640x480 59.4 HDMI-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1920x1080i 25.0 + 1280x960 60.0 1360x768 59.8 1280x768 59.9 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 72.8 75.0 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1
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    please, add xrandr output Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 17:46

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You could try the closed source ATI driver (that is what I eventually did :-( ) But there I had to increase the Virtual resolution in order to get the big screen working.

Section "Screen" Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0" Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Virtual 3046 1200 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection

I wanted to have sync to vblank on my HDMI output and I couldn't find any way to do this with the open source drivers. That's why I eventually went to the tainted ones.

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If the modeline defined using the output of cvt 1400 900 does not work, I'm afraid you might not be able to use this mode via HDMI.

What you could try, however, is disabling kernel modesetting (KMS) for the radeon driver either by appending radeon.modeset=0 to your boot options in grub/lilo, or (if radeon is compiled as module) by adding

module_radeon_args="modeset=0"

to your /etc/conf.d/modules. The reason why this might work is that the radeon driver has been reported to cause various problems with kernel modesetting enabled for some new cards.

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Another good try would be to tell the Xorg server to ignore EDID information, using

Option "IgnoreEDID" "true"

in your xorg.conf, as described here. You'd need a proper modeline for that of course, and that you can obtain after plugging your monitor to the VGA port.

[EDIT2]: Wait a sec, you wrote "cvt 1400 900" - that was a typo, right? You should have used cvt 1440 900 of course.

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