I have a Samsung 42" HD TV. It has a connector for a computer monitor input, and I have been trying to get a computer hooked up to use it as a monitor with little luck. If the machine runs Windows it will use the monitor correctly as a display. If I run Damn Small it will display, but the bottom portion of the screen is below the bottom of the TV screen. Ubuntu, Knoppix, and Debian all produce "Mode Not Supported" messages on the TV but produce no display. If I try to use the Debian Install disk to create a new system, the boot up stuff displays fine, but when it gets to the first installation screen the text is diagonally ripped and unreadable.
On one of my laptops, even in windows there is no display. (I assume that the graphics card in that machine doesn't support the screen modes necessary. On the machine where windows works, I assume the graphics card is capable, and I only need a functional MODE line in the config file. At work we use wide screen TVs as monitors in meetings where groups need to view the screen, but then we only have Windows machines there... Does anyone have any idea what the mode line should look like for these devices? I also want to take this time to thank you all for the great advances that Debian has made since I retired from the group the hardware detection and automated update processes are truly wonderful! And, thank you for keeping Spider in the distribution, I really appreciate it! Please CC me on all responses as I am not currently signed up to this mailing list. Luck, Dwarf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
