TV out in XPS m1210

first of all - thankyou everybody (especally angrymob ) for helping me decide on a m1210 - its simply awesome !!!!

secondly - i would like to use the TV out feature, but i have no clue of how to do it - can anyone help please ? thankyou

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no-one ?

 

you need an S-Video to S-Video cable for the video and you need a 1/8" to RCA Stereo jacks for audio (red and white plugs)

plug the S Video cable into your notebook and into your TV or Receiver or whatever. plug the 1/8" into your "headphones" output and the Red and White plugs into your TV or Receiver or whatever.

Press Fn + CRT/LCD (or the icon of a tv/monitor) to toggle between display outputs. Make sure the TV is set to whatever channel the video input is (Component 1 or AUX or something like that).

 

The Svideo cable must be a 7 pin connector. I found out that it rarely work . Only if u purchased the special cable of Dell . Svideo 7 pin to AV out svideo out.

 

yeah i already tried this .. Fn + (icon on tvs) just switchers between Laptop and external display. while i certainly can get a VGA output i cant get anything from the TV out ..

 

intersting .. this might be why mine wont work .. can you provide a link for the above cable please ? thanks

 

if you can cycle thru the displays, then that means the external device is being recognized. if it wasn't being recognized, nothing would happen when you hit the Fn key combo.

can you explain what you mean by "switchers between Laptop and external display" ?

 

oops - sorry ... what i`m refering to as an external display is a VGA connection to my LCD monitor .. not TV .. i tired to force detection of TV displays and the whole laptop screen went blank - and was the same after every successive reboot ..

so if i manage to get a TV properly hooked up - i SHOULD be able to cycle through displays eh ?

p.s - thanks for helping me out - i had no such problem with my fujitsu N6010 so it cant be a cable issue

 

yeah, if the notebook recognizes the TV, it will let you cycle to it with Fn key combo.

 

right - there might be a slight possiblity that the cable has broke since it wasnt used for a while .. i`ll try with a new cable anyways (from DELL as khanhfat suggested ) - thankyou very much for helping me figure this out drumfu !!!

 

there is no special dell svideo cable. mygeneric radioshack works just fine..


drumfu...heartbreaking rossi crash huh?

 

my m1210 is coming next week so any s video cable will work fine???



^^ PS. I hate Nicky Hayden. Rossi to win first 800cc title!!!!

 

oh man. it was definitely anti-climactic. imagine how good of a race it would have been if rossi had to get up and duel with pedrosa (running defense) and then with hayden. it's the race everybody wanted to see this season. but alas, it wasn't meant to be... so congrats to hayden. and bayliss for coming back from wsbk and basically kicking every motoGP rider's arse.

so, next year we shall see what happens when the doctor is down. does he stay down? or does he come back to kick arse and chew bubble gum while, incidentally, being all out of bubble gum.

if rossi can take an 800cc title; he'll be the only rider with a 500cc title, a MotoGP title, and an 800cc title.

/ok, back to our regularly scheduled thread