Hopefully I'm starting a thread in the right spot this time, lol! On my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop it has a composite video out rca socket. Today for something to do I decided to hook up a monitor to it and see if it was going. Nope! Not surprising though.
I looked in system information for clues to how to get working, I noticed when I clicked on "Display" that under "Extensions" it says "Composite". Does this mean there is some way to turn it on?
I don't desperately need the rca video out but I thought it could be fun.
could it be used as a second monitor in linux?
Thanks for any advice/help. I have puppy linux 5.2.5.
How to use the composite video jack of my laptop?
Re: Display extensions?
Composite video goes to something like a vcr or tv with a compositebugminer wrote:Hopefully I'm starting a thread in the right spot this time, lol! On my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop it has a composite video out rca socket. Today for something to do I decided to hook up a monitor to it and see if it was going. Nope! Not surprising though.
I looked in system information for clues to how to get working, I noticed when I clicked on "Display" that under "Extensions" it says "Composite". Does this mean there is some way to turn it on?
I don't desperately need the rca video out but I thought it could be fun.
could it be used as a second monitor in linux?
Thanks for any advice/help. I have puppy linux 5.2.5.
input jack; much like svideo.
Works okay with Ubuntu, but haven't found a Puppy that will do
it right. Usually doesn't do color when it is partially working.
Could be the laptops I tried weren't up to the task. (Dells)
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs
Lobsters setups are the only ones I remember.bugminer wrote:Hi rjbrewer, Yeah, I know what it is (ty though!).
I was just curious to know if it had to be turned on somewhere in puppy or if it was turned on by default.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=14261
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs
Hello,
Enabling Composite under Display has to do with Composite Display via a compositing manager like xcompmgr, not an output choice...
I have to ask, when you say a Composite output, please describe it..
The little yellow RCA jack should be always on...
Generally, only S-Video needs to be switched...
Enabling Composite under Display has to do with Composite Display via a compositing manager like xcompmgr, not an output choice...
I have to ask, when you say a Composite output, please describe it..
The little yellow RCA jack should be always on...
Generally, only S-Video needs to be switched...
$ xrandr --output S-video --set load_detection 1
$ xrandr --addmode S-video 800x600
$ xrandr --output S-video --mode 800x600
And set mode PAL or NTSC with:
$ xrandr --output S-video --set tv_standard ntsc
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