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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>OK – Your TV is definitely on the
right input (My Hitachi refers to Input 1, Input 2, Input 3, and PC). Your TV
status of “PC” confirms its on the right input – so ignore
question 3.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I think your best bet to get the right
modeline is to get the TV working with Windows (you mention you’ve had
this working at some point in your linked posts), and run powerstrip. This link
describes powerstrip:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a
href="http://entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm">http://entechtaiwan.net/util/ps.shtm</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Here are the steps:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Get Windows Running with TV output<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><font
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style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></font></span></span></font><![endif]><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Run powerstrip to get the right resolution and freqs (powerstrip
has a copy modeline to clipboard function). This will give you the modeline for
your X.org config file.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Start X Again (with the new modeline).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This should be it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>David<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> Oren Gross [mailto:ogross74@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 09, 2005
5:03 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Discussion
about mythtv</st1:PersonName>; david@ellisonline.ca<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] VGA
problem</span></font><font color=black><span style='color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color="#3333ff" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Hi David, in order to answer 1 and 2 I have to do some
tweaking here, but meanwhile I would like to answer 3. I am quoting my reply to
"Dave Fallon":<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><i><font size=2 color="#3333ff" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-style:italic'>the TV has a sign that changes through time - as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></pre><pre><i><font
size=2 color="#3333ff" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-style:italic'>When I switch to the TV mode and the PC is down or not connected it says "PC" (probably equivalent to "No Input" in regular PC monitors. when I reboot, and before the OS is taking over it says "VGA", when the OS is taking over it says "XGA" and the X takes over it returns to "PC".</span></font></i><o:p></o:p></pre>
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Does this help? Can you elaborate on your suggestion "try
removing..."?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
David Ellis wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</xml><![endif]-->A few quickie questions:<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><u5:p> </u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>You mention that it works in Windows. What resolutions does windows
run at when it runs?<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Have you tried powerstrip in Windows? Powerstrip will give you the
modeline that your video card is running at – you can actually cut and
paste in directly into an X.org conf file.<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in'><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Is your TV in “VGA” mode (sometimes called PC Mode), do
you have any other inputs on the set (try removing all inputs but the vga one
and play around with input selection).<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><u5:p> </u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>David<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
color:windowtext'> <a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>
[<a href="mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org">mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@mythtv.org</a>]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Oren Gross<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 09, 2005
1:36 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <a
href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [mythtv-users] VGA problem</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=2 color="#3333ff"
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I am turning to
this mailing list since I have lost hope in any other (believe me, I tried them
all...).<br>
I really need an X expert and I thought that since this group is dealing with
display quite often I might find him/her here.<br>
My problem is that I have </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Toshiba 43JS9UE TV (see <a
href="http://www.toshiba.com.sg/__48256BAC0062814D.nsf/webDocuments/TSPS-64M5JZ">http://www.toshiba.com.sg/__48256BAC0062814D.nsf/webDocuments/TSPS-64M5JZ</a>)
and the following PC: <br>
VoxBox-B - Accent HT-400 HTPC (Home Theater PC) Case for Full size ATX board
with front USB and fire wire ports. <br>
I tried installing Fedora, booting Ubuntu Live CD (I also tried my Laptop
with VGA=791 in the grub) no matter what I try, once the system start the X the
screen goes black. This obviously stops me from installing ogro on my Home
Theater PC...<br>
Seems to me this problem really requires an X expert... anyone?<br>
Here are some additional links to this problem (previous posts i made)<br>
<a href="http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=153427">http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=153427</a><br>
<a
href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=352636">http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=352636</a><br>
<a href="http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=72389">http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=72389</a><br>
<br>
Please help me....</span></font><u5:p></u5:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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size=2 color="#3333ff" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
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