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On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 07:47, Kevin wrote:
> I am trying to connect the svideo port of my laptop (IBM Thinkpad T23)
> to my television. I must be missing a setting in the XF86Config-4
> file. I am using XFree86 Version 4.2.1.
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> The laptop has an "S3 SuperSavage IX/C SDR" video chipset. The
> 's3switch tv' command works fine, but I only see the top left corner of
> the desktop on the tv, unless I have the resolution set to 640x480.=20
> Hardly usable. The gnome icons are huge and every webpage turns into a
> scroll-fest. ;-)
>=20
> I tried this on two different televisions (Sony 51" 16:9 HDTV and Sony
> 29" 4:3 tube) with the same result.
Kevin,
I'm not entirely sure what you are wanting here, but the reality of the
situation is that NTSC Composite video (what comes on SVideo connectors)
is coded at 720x480 interlaced. When either of your TVs take in the
signal that is what they are expecting. If you want to use your HDTV
you'll need some other form of connection (best being DVI but component
would work also) to use the larger resolution. Just FYI, HDTVs will
take in 1920x1080i but most are not actually that resolution.
--Ted
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