[ale] newbie question:using a TV as a monitor

[Glenn C. Lasher Jr.]

Additional info:

Regardless what the monitor plugged in to the xVGA port of your machine is
doing, the TV will ALWAYS be doing 640x480 60Hz interlaced.  It's what
TV's do.  Additionally, the dot pitch on a TV is usually pretty atrocious.
If you run at 640x480, expect a blurry, flickery picture.  If you run at
800x600, expect a blurry, flickery, downconverted picture.  Go ahead and
do it if you are intending to use your box for multimedia presentation,
but whatever you do, DO NOT try to use your TV in place of a monitor; your
eyesight will regret it.

On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Calvin Harrigan wrote:

> On Sunday 16 September 2001 09:59 pm, you wrote:
> > Jason Vinson writes:
> >  > i recently purchased and ATI all in wonder card and i want to use my
> >  > television as a monitor (standard NTSC).  this works fine in text mode,
> >  > but i can't get it configured to run x.  does anyone have experience
> >  > doing this?
> >
> > I haven't tried to do that in a couple of years, but I don't think it
> > was possible, then.  Of course, two years is a long time in Internet
> > Time...
> >
> > There are a few chips that TV-out is supported on that I do know of if
> > you are interested.
> >
> > --Michael
> >
> >
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>
> I've done this using nvidia based cards, namely the geforce2mx.  One problem
> that you might look into is the resolution and refresh rate that X is setup
> to use.  If the setttings are outside the range of the chipset to convert to
> ntsc it just turns off the TV output.  From my limited expertise with an Asus
> 7100 (nvidia) and an older ATI PC2TV card, 800x600 seems to be the max they
> will support.  The vertical refresh must not be more than 60 hertz.   60hHz
> looks bad on a monitor but just fine on a tv.  Hopes this helps...
>
>
> Calvin
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