S-Video TV out on kubuntu
The problem: ubuntu media centre that hooks up to an old TV which takes S-video. Graphics card or ubuntu isn’t capable of automatically detecting the TV.
The solution: [Bernades] has an article on how to get ubuntu to detect the tv and output it using XRandR.
xrandr --output S-video --set load_detection 1
xrandr --output S-video --auto
The problem is that this isn’t persistent and as soon as you reboot you’ll be back to square one.
[Ubuntu wiki] shows a script can be setup to run the above lines of code on startup. So in my case of using kde add the above lines of code to the following file.
/etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup
Give your a box a reboot and your linux media centre should be configured to use your TV.
Thanks! was trying to figure that out