Hi all,<br><br>I bought an alix3d3 and I'd like to use it a media center (not sure if it's powerful enough, but I'll try).<br><br>I was surprised by how streamlined was the installation process, very appreciated. :)<br>
<br>I'm struggling trying to see something on my PHILIPS LCD TV 32pf9731d with VGA input.<br><br>The VGA input works fine with many laptops, so it cannot be the problem. From the manual:<br><br>- before connecting your PC to the TV, select your PC monitor settings to a refresh frequency of<br>
60 Hz;<br>- supported PC monitor modes:<br>VGA 640 x 480<br>SVGA 800 x 600<br>XGA 1024 x 768<br><br>At work, with my external monitor the alix works just fine, but I can't manage to see anything on the LCD TV at home.<br>
<br>I tried to to edit grub with all kind of vga=xxx taken from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Linux_video_mode_numbers">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions#Linux_video_mode_numbers</a> , but either the TV goes out of synch or it shows a flickering image of the POST (even if the alix correctly booted and I can access it via ssh).<br>
<br>An other route I was trying to follow was to fire up X so that I wouldn't have to care if the text based boot would not be visible, so after reading the voyage mailing list I did the following:<br><br>apt-get update<br>
apt-get install xorg<br>apt-get install openbox<br>apt-get install xdm<br><br>While connected to the LCD screen at home, nothing changed (still out of synch or flickering), but the bad news is that now even connected to the monitor at work I can see only the text boot sequence but after a while the screen goes black (I guess when xdm kicks in).<br>
<br>Any idea?<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>alfonso<br>