Re: S-video

["Pedro Neves" <paneves@ualg.pt>]

Hi:

Seems like your TV's scart imput has no s-video entrance. I had the same
problem with my TV.

One possible solution is to buy an S-video to RCA cable and plug it to the
RCA input on the TV (if it has one), or to an RCA to scart adaptor (which is
what I use).

Regards

Pedro
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alessandro Speranza" <speranza@math.unifi.it>
To: <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 12:23 PM
Subject: S-video


> Hi guys.
> I'm back with my laptop's problems. I haven't yet complained with the
> retailer about the battery, but before doing that, I want to sort out
> another issue.
>
> A few days ago I got an S-video+audio--->scart cable to connect my laptop
> (compaq presario 700) to the Tv and watch dvds with it. The video card
> I've got is a S3 ProSavage KN133 (TwisterK) which should in principle
> support lcd,crt and tv. In fact, with the s3switch utility from
> http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html#download
> or from
> http://ranger.s3graphics.com/viaarena/380drv/
> it's possible to switch from the lcd monitor to the external monitor and
> bach or run them together. However, when I use s3switch to connect the TV,
> nothing happens.
> A similar utility comes with the Twister driver for WinXP. With that I
> get a sort of weak flashing of the TV screen, but no image coming out.
> Any ideas?
> Thaks a lot
> Ale
>
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