On 21/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stephen Dolan</b> <<a href="mailto:stephen.dolan@gmail.com">stephen.dolan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">On 21/01/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tim Phipps</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mythtv-users@phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk
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I'm using the composite output on mine which is good enough for PAL TV.<br>As other have said use 720x576Noscale in xorg.conf and disconnect the<br>monitor from the VGA before booting. I can only get monochrome from the
<br>s-video in my set-up. No idea why and it's a shame since the picture is<br>a bit shaper than the composite output. (It's s-video into a s-video to<br>scart connector)<br></blockquote></div><br></span>Sounds like your TV doesn't support an S-video signal. Not all of them do, and sometimes the TV will only support an S-video signal on one of the SCART sockets. For example my TV has 4 SCART sockets, but only SCART 2 supports s-video. If I plug the s-video->scart cable into any of the other SCART sockets on the TV then I get a monochrome picture.
<br><br>Check the specs for your TV.<br><br>
</blockquote></div>and have a read of this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video#Connector">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Video#Connector</a><br><br>hope that helps<br>