I have a latitude d630 laptop and a Toshiba 32rv635db TV.  I have tried to connect the laptop to the TV using a VGA cable (for video) and an audio jack-RCA cable (for audio).   Two problems:

1. Video - I can get the TV to recognize the video, but it only detects it as XGA and so I get vertical black bars along th sides.  Is there any way to get rid of these?   How?

2. Audio - I plugged the jack into the headphone output on the laptop and the RCA cable to the appropriate input on the TV.  But I have to turn up the TV volume to nearly its maximum just to hear anything.   ANd the things I hear are faint and tin sounding.   Help.  How can I fix the audio?