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I have a DELL L501X computer supporting Optimus; my Nvidia chip is connected to the hdmi port. The driver is Nvidia-current; Bumblebee is installed and working. My PC resolution is set to 1366x768.

I managed to set up an external monitor simply by removing the edid line in the xorg.conf.nvidia file and starting programs with DISPLAY=:8 optirun program.

Via optirun nvidia-settings -c :8 I checked that the external screen (a tv monitor) is detected with its native resolution, which is 1920x1080. So far so good.

The problem now is that the program, e.g. Firefox, fills only the middle and upper left half of the screen. The rest remains black. Changing the resolution down to 1280 etc. the screen is filled quite better.

So what is the problem, what can I do?

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Is your tv monitor Full HD? If not, maybe you have to change down the resolution to 1280 × 720 – user81068 Aug 3 '12 at 14:50
No, it's a 1080p monitor, so it should work fine. – user81072 Aug 3 '12 at 14:56

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I found something important out: I can start for example glxspheres with the option -fs (Full-Screen mode): DISPLAY=:8 optirun glxspheres -fs

I then get the expected behavior, glxspheres fills out the whole display. Without it, it's only partially filled.

I think, the problem is other than I originally supposed when asking the question. So I opened another question of how to get full screen with programs on the external monitor.

UPDATE: I solved all my problems thanks to these instrucions.

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