TV as a Monitor
I'm having great difficulties using my tv as a monitor. I'm not
worried about the horrible resolution, I understand the concept that a
regular tv will never be able to produce resolution like a computer
monitor. Instead, my problem is getting it to work at all. I have my
svideo output running from my ATI Radeon 9500 to my video in on the
television.
This works fine for boot, and even during the instillation of Debian if
I issue the command "install vga=771" or something very similar. I
found this command in the F1 help at the installer menu. If I sipmly
hit enter at the installer splash screen to enter the default
installer, I get horrible syncing problems on my TV and everything
looks like a blue-grey scramble. The installer goes thru all of its
steps, I can read the (very fuzzy) text as I would expect, and I get to
the point where it asks me to reboot.
After rebooting, video still works. I see my bios messages, then
linux's grub boot menu comes up and I make a selection. Right after
that, I get the same horrible picture that I got when I did the debian
installer without the vga=771 command.
Durring the installer I did see a choice to setup monitor settings.
The first time I went with default settings, and it didn't work (same
issue.) The second time I did advanced setup and used the values that
the installer recommended for the vertical and horizontal (same issue.)
But maybe those recommended settings were for a regular monitor? What
would the values be for a picture tube TV?
After I couldn't get debian to work I tried to install Fedora Core 4,
the installer did the exact same thing, however, it didn't have any
kind of special monitor settings so I couldn't even get it installed.
Windows XP (bleh) worked flawlessly, however. Installer fine and fine
on boot all the way into windows. But I want my linux! (windows was
just a test)
Does anyone know how I can get the picture to continue working in the
same way that I had it in the installer's special (goofy laptop
monitor/TV) mode? Either some sort of setting that I need to change in
some file, or if during the installer I specified advanced values for
the horiz/vert settings?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Rob
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