{"id":97,"date":"2007-06-19T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T16:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=97"},"modified":"2007-06-19T17:55:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T16:55:24","slug":"more-fun-with-urandr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albertomilone.com\/blog\/more-fun-with-urandr\/","title":{"rendered":"More fun with URandR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I passed the oral English exam (which went great, by the way) and now I’m so stressed that I have decided to take a day off before to start studying for the oral Spanish exam. I messed with my laptop and replaced Fedora 7 with Ubuntu Gutsy, which seems to work great.<\/p>\n

A few days ago I discovered that I could solve the problem with RandR 1.2 and the black & white screen on my television. I had to use an S-Video cable and a S-Video to CART adapter (since a S-Video to Composite adapter doesn’t solve the problem). Then I only had to set my TV to the S2 mode (so that it can use an S-Video cable). This method works fine on both Debian Sid and Ubuntu Gutsy however the TV is seen as supporting only a 30Hz refresh rate. Compiling and installing the latest release of RandR from GIT solved the problem (I can use it at 60Hz now). I can also switch between PAL, NTSC, NTSC-J, etc. and, if my TV were a HDTV, I would also be able to choose 720p, 1080p, etc.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately the latest version of RandR is not available in Ubuntu Gutsy or in Debian Sid but I hope it will make it to Ubuntu’s stable release. I’ll implement these new features in URandR ASAP.<\/p>\n

Enough talk. My adapter looks like the following:<\/p>\n

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Here are some screenshots of URandR in action (you can save these photos on your hard disk so as to see them in 1024×768<\/strong>):<\/p>\n

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Here is a photo of URandR on my laptop (in this photo my TV is stuck in
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P.S. I would like to thank Keith Packard<\/strong> for taking the time to reply to my emails on RandR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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