I have a couple of the All-In-Wonder cards in a box here, and you have sparked my intrest in playing with one again.
The first question that comes to mind is: Does the card, with a TV attached, work as a dual head card (can different things be displayed on the monitor and the TV) or does it simply mirror the display to the TV? Second question: Will the All-In-Wonder function, at all, with only a TV, having no primary monitor attached at all? I believe the card was designed to provide a display to the television as an ADDITION to your normal primary monitor, not in place of it. In any case, take a look at your xfconfig file and see what is written under the section labeled DISPLAY. Take particular note of the starting resolution...any TV should handle a resolution of 1024x168, but probably only an LCD will get any higher. On Oct 29, 5:19 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an old tower, a 900Mhz machine. It was the first machine I > ever installed Linux on. I don't know why I never got rid of it, but > I still have it for archiving. > > This particular machine has an ATI All In Wonder 8500DV. It has a TV > out attached to it. I use it mostly for making VCD video to take on > the go. Well, the other day, I hooked the cables up to the wrong > input. Suddenly, during the system boot screen where it checks memory > and so on, the screen changes resolution and size on the monitor. It > appears it thought it was connected to a TV. > > This intrigues me because I was under the impression that the > composite TV Out on video cards runs through a driver (read that: > Windows only). But with this going to TV resolution as soon as I > switched on the machine, I'm thinking it might be hardware based and > not be software related at all. > > The only reason I haven't tried experimenting is that I'm not sure how > risky this is under Linux. I know setting the resolution cautions to > set the frequencies and such correctly or you could damage the > monitor, and I'm leery of trashing my TV. > > So is anyone familiar enough with video cards to know if the switch is > truly hardware based, and would potentially work with DOS if I so > tried it? If so, do I have to set the display under Linux for > something first before I start it up on the TV? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
