On Dec 29, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Stef Coene wrote:<br><br>> On Friday 29 December 2006 16:27, Trent Carbe wrote:<br>>> Hi again,<br>>><br>>> The link is for the Windows world, and I have done this exactly
<br>>> when I<br>>> had Win98 installed on the laptop. With Win98 I got picture onto<br>>> the TV by<br>>> pressing the 'Fn' key and 'F5'.<br>> Are you sure this is not working? On my thinkpad, I can use fn +
<br>> f5 to active<br>> the vga out in linux and windows. This is a hardware switch, so it<br>> works<br>> regardless the os.<br>> For the compaq laptop I once tried, if I connect the tv-out before<br>> powering on
<br>> the laptop, everything is displayed on the tv. Including the<br>> compaq logo and<br>> the bios stuff.<br><br>On a Dell Latitude D600 I can get the gui display on the VGA output <br>but playing video (myth live tv or any movie with mplayer) just displays black in the window.
<br>Works fine on the LCD display though.<br><br>- John<br>