Re: TV-Out: naive question
On Thu, 03 Oct 2002, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> currently I cannot use my laptop LCD monitor,
> so I envisage to use my TV as external monitor (at home).
Good luck; this can be very difficult -- and isn't that usable most of
the time. :)
> The question is:
> what must we install to use a TV as ad hoc external monitor ?
Well, you need a video card that supports TV-out under Linux, and a way
to enable that.
For an ATI chip this means that you need the TV connected at boot time,
and to find the 'atitvout' program (google should do it) which calls the
VESA BIOS to enable it.
If, and it's only if, that works, you should get 800x600 TV-out
tolerably working.
For other adapters, it depends on the card in question. A Matrox should
just work(tm), but I don't expect your laptop has one of those. :)
I don't know about any other video chipset but, in general, this is not
a well supported area. :/
[...]
> PS: Note that I can use a classical external monitor at ofice
> (but not a home).
You are probably best off getting one for home use, not trying to use
the TV.
Daniel
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