Nvidia question

[Ken Moffat]

On 6/27/2010 4:00 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Michael Hipp<Michael at hipp.com>  wrote:
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>> On 6/27/2010 2:23 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>      
>>> Lonnie, maybe?
>>> I have an HP laptop with an Nvidia G501M 512MB video card in it, and
>>> wonder if the VGA out port has TV capability, or if in order to use an
>>> adapter to composite video, I need just a cable, or do I need a
>>> converter box? Not necessarily a linux question, but I know there are
>>> nvidia users here.
>>>        
>> Doesn't really have anything to do with nVidia or any other brand. I googled
>> 'vga to composite video adapter' and got these:
>>
>> http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=vga+to+composite+video+adapter&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=15223743978350771745&ei=n8QnTK6MFIaBlAfpx4i0Ag&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ8wIwAA#
>> http://www.amazon.com/TV-Out-VGA-S-Video-RCA-Adapter/dp/B000S675JU
>> http://sewelldirect.com/pc-to-tv.asp
>>
>> Appears to me the job can be done with little more than a cheap adapter. But
>> I haven't done it.
>>      
> Actually, it has a lot to do with the brand and the X driver.  Those
> adapters rarely work well, if at all, especially with Linux.
>
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>    
I bought a thing called pctotv from Frys, which works. I did not have 
time to mailorder or I could have saved myself a few dollars. This thing 
takes VGA signals and converts to S-video or RCA pin video signals, with 
VGA pass through for hooking a monitor also. It's quite blurry, no good 
for actual computing, but works for pictures. I'm not happy, but it will 
do for a slide show.

Thanks,
Ken