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Xanadax n00b
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 6
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Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 10:44 pm Post subject: Laptop video out |
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Front of my tv has the red and white ports for sound and the yellow for video. In windows I can use the yellow video out port on the back of my laptop to send my display to the tv through it's yellow video port simply by selecting the tv as the display device.
I need to do this in linux as well. Searches show up people with tv tuner video card problems. That's not my deal here.
Following post suggests all I need is some /etc/X11/XF86Config file treaking:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=32662&highlight=laptop+video
If that's the case I'll need to be shown what I need to do in the extra screen section I'll create. |
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cato` Guru
Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 430 Location: Norway, Trondheim
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Xanadax n00b
Joined: 06 Sep 2002 Posts: 6
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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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It's a Trident Cyberblade XP, probably version 3. I didn't specify the card because I was hoping there'd just be a standard modification to the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to tell it to look for another display device, in this case a tv. |
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ajaygautam Apprentice
Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 205 Location: London Below
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Posted: Fri Feb 21, 2003 5:05 am Post subject: |
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If you have video cable plugged into your computer to your TV, XFree startup will recognize that and will switch output to TV.
Works great. I have doing this with my desktop (geforce4): Plugin the video cable, press CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to restart XFree, it starts on TV . This will probably work, irrespective of what display card you have.
Ajay |
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