On 01/10/14 14:21, Nigel Verity wrote:
Hi
I have a Raspberry Pi with which I use my TV as a monitor, or at
> least I did until I trod on the HDMI cable and damaged the socket
> on the back of the TV.
The only other inputs the TV has are a SCART and VGA. My laptop
> running Xubuntu 13.10 has both an HDMI socket and a VGA output.
> I know I may be asking a bit much but does anybody know if it would
> be possible to connect the HDMI output of the Pi to the
> corresponding socket on the laptop and redirect the signal to the
VGA, even if it means running some conversion software in between?.
The laptop socket is HDMI out only. You need a HDMI to VGA converter.
They're less than a fiver on eBay or Amazon, but I found the one with
sound stopped the Pi from booting unless I unplugged the sound cable first.
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