I'm having great difficulties using my tv as a monitor. I'm not worried about the horrible resolution, I understand the concept that a regular tv will never be able to produce resolution like a computer monitor. Instead, my problem is getting it to work at all. I have my svideo output running from my ATI Radeon 9500 to my video in on the television.
This works fine for boot, and even during the instillation of Debian if I issue the command "install vga=771" or something very similar. I found this command in the F1 help at the installer menu. If I sipmly hit enter at the installer splash screen to enter the default installer, I get horrible syncing problems on my TV and everything looks like a blue-grey scramble. The installer goes thru all of its steps, I can read the (very fuzzy) text as I would expect, and I get to the point where it asks me to reboot. After rebooting, video still works. I see my bios messages, then linux's grub boot menu comes up and I make a selection. Right after that, I get the same horrible picture that I got when I did the debian installer without the vga=771 command. Durring the installer I did see a choice to setup monitor settings. The first time I went with default settings, and it didn't work (same issue.) The second time I did advanced setup and used the values that the installer recommended for the vertical and horizontal (same issue.) But maybe those recommended settings were for a regular monitor? What would the values be for a picture tube TV? After I couldn't get debian to work I tried to install Fedora Core 4, the installer did the exact same thing, however, it didn't have any kind of special monitor settings so I couldn't even get it installed. Windows XP (bleh) worked flawlessly, however. Installer fine and fine on boot all the way into windows. But I want my linux! (windows was just a test) Does anyone know how I can get the picture to continue working in the same way that I had it in the installer's special (goofy laptop monitor/TV) mode? Either some sort of setting that I need to change in some file, or if during the installer I specified advanced values for the horiz/vert settings? Thanks in advance for any help, Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
