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Title: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: Ron on December 11, 2012, 06:21:54 PM

My Netbook is running Win 7 starter.

When I hook up my monitor I can get an image on both the Netbook and monitor at the netbook max resolution.

When I turn off the Netbook image it flips my image 90 degrees (portrait?) on the monitor and but is displaying at a higher resolution.

It is set at landscape so why it flips is a mystery.

I have a program I need to run that requires higher resolution than the netbook screen provides. My thought was to turn the screen off, run the monitor at the higher resolution to run my program.

Any thoughts on what to do?

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: bedlamite on December 11, 2012, 07:27:16 PM

Detcord.

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: Devonai on December 11, 2012, 10:27:21 PM

Turn your external monitor 90 degrees to the right.

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on December 12, 2012, 11:53:12 AM

Most netbooks run an Intel Atom processor, and have Intel graphics chips.

Under your resolution properties, click the "advanced settings" hyperlink.  You'll get a multi-tabbed configuration windows form.  Look for a proprietary tag for your graphics driver... I have one that says "Inte(R) Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Mobile."  There is a great big button that says Graphics Properties.  Click that, and you get a custom Intel application specific to Intel driver properties that may or may not be common to other graphics cards.  There's an option in here, for me, for display rotation.  I can "Rotate to Normal", or 90/180/270 degrees.

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: Ron on December 12, 2012, 05:39:26 PM

Thanks AZ, I didn't realize that was a tab. I clicked all the tabs under it but not the one on top.

Unfortunately I don't have all the options you do, my highest resolution to choose for the monitor is 1024x600. No option to rotate ether. Maybe later I'll see if I can track down a driver update, sometimes you gain functionality with updates.

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: Harold Tuttle on December 13, 2012, 08:29:33 AM

Netbooks don't have a lot of video umph.

Try setting it to a lower resolution like 640x480
Plug in the external monitor
Then increase the Rez

The 22 is a different aspect ratio than the netbook fer sure

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on December 13, 2012, 09:41:56 AM

Quote from: Harold Tuttle on December 13, 2012, 08:29:33 AM

Netbooks don't have a lot of video umph.

Truthiness.

However...

When I first got my ASUS eeePC Netbook, I ran Ubuntu on it.  When I would plug in my 19" LCD into the external jack, Ubuntu would only run the thing at the same resolution as the main display, 1024x600 IIRC.  However, I put Windows on it and appropriate Intel drivers, I could run the 19" LCD up to 1280x1024 (its native max resolution).

I've never plugged the netbook into my 24" widescreen LCD (1920x1200) but I bet it could do it at least at 16 bit color, maybe even 24 bit.  I can't tell the difference between 24 bit and 32 bit color anyways.

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: Ron on December 13, 2012, 10:19:36 AM

Thanks guys, I updated the drivers and still am only getting 1024 x 600 as my max resolution when I hit the "List all modes" tab.

 

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on December 13, 2012, 10:46:35 AM

I'm currently sitting at a Lenovo ThinkPad T500 with Intel driver and 24" external monitor, and when I click "list all modes" under the advanced properties, I see 1280x800 as my supposed max resolution... but I'm running that 24" monitor at 1920x1200.


I went back to the main screen resolution page, and highlighted the 2nd monitor (the external 24" LCD).  Then hit advanced settings again.

Now I see under advanced properties, when I list all modes, 1920x1200.

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: Ron on December 13, 2012, 11:35:52 AM

I'm going to go and poke around some more and see if I'm missing something still.

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: Ron on December 13, 2012, 11:45:32 AM

If I use Windows to switch to monitor only I don't get the higher resolution.

When I went to the driver tab and switched to "single display" it auto configured to my monitor! WooHoo! 

Thanks Az!

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on December 13, 2012, 11:54:59 AM

You're welcome... I'm surprised it's such a PITA to configure an external monitor with an Intel driver on that netbook.  Obviously the hardware oomph is there to do the task, they just neglected to write the correct hooks into the driver for windows to do it seamlessly via its basic screen resolution interface.

Title: Re: Netbook and 22'' Acer LCD
Post by: Gewehr98 on December 13, 2012, 09:39:24 PM

If there's not enough hardware on the netbook to properly drive a big LCD monitor at it's native resolution (hint, hint)...

Get a USB monitor adapter.  I have one for the second monitor of an embedded system running a CMM at work, and it does a great job.

http://www.amazon.com/Diamond-BVU195-Adapter-DisplayLink-Chipset/dp/B002GHBW4S

I've also bought docking stations for the Dell Latitude notebooks at home, some have slots for dedicated external video cards.