My TV is not a good monitor

The new ATI Radeon 9*** 256 Megabyte (I'm reading from memory, here. I can give more details later.) videocard I have has a S-Video out, as well as the usual monitor hook-ups. Seeing as how I live in an apartment, with no room for an extra monitor, I tried plugging it into my TV. The display was in black and white for about ten seconds, then the screen just started freaking out. I don't know if the drivers on the CD would help or not, because I'm using the Linux Ubuntu OS, and I don't know how to install them (Or if it's even possible). I've used this PC on regular monitors before, and it works just fine. Is there anything I can do to make my TV work as a proper monitor?

A couple of things to check first:

1. Is the video type set on your computer the same as that supported by your TV

2. Is the resolution set to 800 x 600 or less..............most TVs won't support anything higher

:)

#2 is fine, but I have no idea about #1. How do I check that?

This article may help:

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...out/index.html

It is for setting up ATI Radeon cards and s-video

:)

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Originally posted here by nihil
A couple of things to check first:

1. Is the video type set on your computer the same as that supported by your TV

2. Is the resolution set to 800 x 600 or less..............most TVs won't support anything higher

:)

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*Looks at #2*.... your age is showing on this one nihil :D... or your TV's age heh.. The TVs I've owned in the last 2-3 years all support up to 1024x768... same for most of the Hotel's I've been too lately :)..

Kitten_Hurling:

ATI has wonderful installers for many of their video cards off their website (My laptop has a 128MB ATI Fire GL V3200 and I'm running Ubuntu). A nice control panel was added that makes it very easy to switch in and out of TV mode. Should you not take this route you have to ensure that your X config has the TV out section properly configured...

After all that is said and done... You will not want to use your TV for TV out... unless you have a really nice newer LCD TV... CRT TVs just don't give you the quality... everything will appear fuzzy and rather crappy....

Peace,
HT

I use lots of TV-outs, mostly while I'm VJ'ing.. Believe me, you don't want to spend more then an hour trying to read texts on a TV screen... Resolution and, more importantly, the refresh rates are just to low..

SVideo uses a monochrome signal and a seperate color signal..

Things that can go wrong are

*) Bad cable.. Color signal not coming through.. B/W screen..
*) SVideo->Scart.. Not all scart connectors on TVs support an YC signal.. B/W screen..
*) PAL / NTSC set to the wrong standard


A lot of the newer LCD TVs also have an VGA connector...