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interestinfellow
September 9th, 2009, 04:10 AM
OK.... Don't know if this question has been asked, as I can't find it in many places.

Got a Dell I8K here, and you all helped me get it as straight as it is now... I need to get it a bit more straight.

Stats are as follows
Dell Inspiron 8000 PP01X (Bios says Dell Inspiron 8000 700VT)
Bios Rev A23
ATI Mobility M4 8mb w/svid out
Mobile Pentium III 70/550mhz
Ess Maestro 3
192mb ram
Onboard Lan, 56k mod, usb 1, 1394, pcmcia,

How do I get the s-video out to work. I attempted to hook it up to my tv earlier, and it didn't work. I tried different monitor resolutions, and the fn+f7 (font) combo, and the fn+f8 (crt/lcd), and fn+f5 (dunno, it has pictures of two monitors, one negative of the other) and no luck.

Somebody help me, please.

TIA!

C.S.Cameron
September 9th, 2009, 08:10 PM
Built myself a box for use with a TV using an Intel D945GCLF2 motherboard running Ubuntu installed on a flash drive.
I think I tried almost everything to get s-video working. Finally gave up and installed XP on the flash drive. It works really slowly but at least I can watch movies.