On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 06:23, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > 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. Are you sure you're running at a resolution that your TV supports? I can only use TV-out on my laptop if I have X running at 800x600 or lower. I run at 1400x1050 by default which does nothing when I try to activate the TV display. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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