Nvidia question

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> 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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