Well I downloaded the manual for it from HP, and in fact it is TV(and
VCR) compatible. However the manual talks about changing a setting in
windoze control panel to enable the output, so I have a feeling this
will need specific support to work under Netbsd. Another thing is that I
have a projection TV, and I've heard something about some game consoles
not being compatible with some of them, so I don't know if that might be
the problem. I don't have a regular TV to test with either. If this
feature is in fact not supported, I'd like to give it a shot. I'm no C
expert but I've done some pretty extensive things with C and I've got a
lot of time on my hands too. But as of yet I still don't know if it's
supported or not. Any ideas?

der Mouse wrote:
> 
> > I have an Armada 4131T laptop.  [...]  It has a video out port on it,
> > [...]  I've hooked it up to my TV and can't get an output.
> 
> Are you sure the video produced is supposed to be TV-compatible?  Most
> computer display modes are much too high-resolution for normal TVs; TV
> video is something like Nx500, interlaced.  (N does not have a definite
> value, as TV video signals are not pixelized horizontally.)
> 
> Assuming it really is supposed to be compatible, my guess - and it is
> just a guess - would be that what's needed to get it supported is
> pretty much the standard "get hardware documentation, time, motivation,
> a kernel hacker competent to do the work, and sample hardware all
> together at once".
> 
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