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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> It's not unusual for S Video to show up as<BR>
> black and white, I forget the reasons for this although it may be that there<BR>
> is more than one S Video mode or way to connect perhaps someone on this list<BR>
> has more details about this and can assist.<BR>
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AFAIK the most frequent reason black & while problem is one of the following:<BR>
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- wrong color standard: outputting NTSC picture to a PAL TV.<BR>
(With my current proprietary nvidia configuration, I can output colour<BR>
data to my PAL TV. However, before I configured it to output PAL instead of<BR>
NTSC, it gave black & white.)<BR>
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- wrong s-video output format:<BR>
S-video has two signals: brightness information (Y) and color information (C).<BR>
When converting this to composite, usually only one cable pair (Y) is transferred.<BR>
To make this work, the device outputting the S-video signal must be told that<BR>
the Y signal should include the color information, too. (This is what setting<BR>
the "TVOutFormat" option in xorg.conf to "COMPOSITE" actually does, for drivers<BR>
that support this.)<BR>
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So, AFAIK, in order to make it work, I would have to<BR>
- force it to output composite signal via the s-video output port, and<BR>
- set the PAL standard.<BR>
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> Alternately perhaps you could see if there is a way to connect composite<BR>
> video which should not have this problem.<BR>
Since I only have DVI and S-Video output ports on the SDVO card, I do not see<BR>
how this would be possible.<BR>
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Kristof<BR>
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