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dannytatom

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2009-02-02

Posts: 229

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Using a TV as output for my laptop

I have a compaq presario V5000 with a broken screen that I'd like to use my Sanyo TV with.  I have the S-Video hooked up, and it lists it in xrandr (and flickers when I type xrandr!), but nothing is showing on it.  I'm using the xf86-video-intel driver and when I open lxrandr, select "Turn On" for the TV, it closes but nothing happens and it's not selected when I reopen lxrandr.  Here's the output of some relative commands, maybe someone can point me in the right direction?

xrandr -

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 960, maximum 1440 x 1440
VGA connected 1280x960+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 410mm x 257mm
   1280x960       60.0*+
   1440x900       59.9 +   75.0     59.9  
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0  
   1152x864       75.0  
   1024x768       75.0     70.1     60.0  
   832x624        74.6  
   800x600        72.2     75.0     60.3     56.2  
   640x480        75.0     72.8     66.7     59.9  
   720x400        70.1  
LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 330mm x 210mm
   1280x800       60.1*+
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3  
   640x480        59.9  
TV connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1024x768       30.0  
   800x600        30.0  
   848x480        30.0  
   640x480        30.0

lspci | grep VGA

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

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Registered: 2007-03-17

Posts: 38

Re: Using a TV as output for my laptop

The graphics adaptor on my Thinkpad R60 is the same. There is only the S-video connector. I rember having a similiar issue with tv-out on an ATI graphics card. The option there was to provide a TV compatible resolution / freq. setting and connect the graphics card to the TV. ie. for NTSC you would use something like 800x600 and 60Hz.

It's some time ago. Have you been lucky on this?