If you are connecting via VGA to the converter box, it should show up as an external monitor. Just configure it as you would a second monitor.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Goran Poprzen <[email protected]> wrote: > Not familiar with these converters either, but if it has composite or > s-video only, it outputs NTSC only. Also not sure if it's capable of > downconverting the resolution, so your best bet would be to try to lower > your input resolution into converter to 640 x 480 / 60 Hz, and see what's > happening. I'm guessing the converter takes VGA as an input? > > Cheers, > Goran > > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Joe Shuttleworth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Would like to extend the picture from the computer to the TV. The TV in a >> crt. It has composite, component(wires red, blue, green) and svideo. On >> laptop I am using CrunchBang Waldorf 64 bit at the moment and have a vga >> and hdmi output and a converter to go to composite or svideo. I hooked it >> up today, but am not getting a picture on the TV. Is there something that I >> need to set up in Linux to get the picture on the TV. I'm not sure how good >> these converteres work so would appreciate any advice about that and what >> is the best choice of connection for picture. >> >> Thanks >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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