Assuming you just want to mirror what's on your mac to the external
display. You need to go to System Preferences and then Displays under
the Hardware section. The Mac detects what screens are connected at
startup so if you add a screen later you'll need to tell the Mac to look
for it. In the Displays preference panel you'll find a button that says
"Detect Displays". Clicking this should get the mac to notice you have
two screens instead of just one. On some Macs this screen adds more
space but on lower-end macs it just goes into mirroring automagically.
If you have a higher end mac you should now see another tab in the
Display preferences called Arrangement. If you select that tab you
should find a checkbox that says Mirror displays. Once mirrored you
might have to set the resolution to whatever your two displays can
handle. Regular TVs are a very low 640x480 safe area and fuzzy at that.
If you have something nicer it should be able to handle higher resolutions.
Hope this helps.
CB
Darcy Burnard wrote:
Hmmm, that I can't help you with. Perhapse there's something in the
displays section of system preferences.
Darcy
On 19-Sep-07, at 2:06 AM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
Yes it has a VGA connection on the TV and their is one on the
computer. What I need to know is the keystroke to transfer the video
from the computer directly to the TV. Basically using the TV as a
monitor.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Darcy Burnard"
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Hi. I believe this will work. The thing is to get the DVI port in
to something your tv will accept. Does your tv have a vga port on
it, is that how you were doing it before?
Darcy
On 19-Sep-07, at 1:42 AM, VaShaun Jones wrote:
Listers my broken window can connect to my TV using a VGA cord and
by pressing function F8 to display the video. I was wondering if
the Mac has the same setup? I want the video output to go to my TV
so if I need to demonstrate something to a sighted person I can do
so using the TV.
