Sending laptop output to TV using VGA cable

I'm using a DB15 (VGA) cable to connect my laptop to my Videocon TV. I am unable to see any display. On Googling, I found a post on configuring xorg.conf to send output to TV using SVIDEO, but the same does not work for me. I did the modification mentioned and restarted my X-server, but saw a "Invalid mode" message on the TV instead of the "No signal" message. I did change my TV to VGA mode.

The refresh rate shown at the back of the TV is 50-60Hertz. I also tried adding modeline entries in my xorg.conf. I even restarted my laptop hoping the display would get configured, but to no avail. How do I get this working?

‹ seamonkey-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried xrandr. First, I

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I tried xrandr. First, I reset my xorg.conf using:

# dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

Then, I used the following command to find out connected ports:

$ xrandr -q

Then, after unsuccessfully trying several modes, finally the following one worked:

$ xrandr --output VGA --mode 1024x768 --output LVDS --mode 1280x800 --same-as VGA

This one also works:

$ xrandr --output LVDS --mode 1280x800 --output VGA --mode 1024x768 --same-as LVDS

So now, I can see my laptop output on my TV screen! Still trying to make it permanent, so that if present, it happens on login.