AV (RCA) Cable in Fedora and Linux??

[Edward M]

On 04/08/2012 12:29 AM, Manuel Escudero wrote:
> So here's the thing:
>
> Few days ago, I bought a projector, and this projector has two entrances:
>
> 1) Mini USB
>
> 2) AV IN
>
> The mini USB only lets you connect an USB Drive via an adapter and 
> read the data
> from it, you can't use it to connect your PC to the projector via USB 
> cable, the projector
> doesn't recognize that connection as a usb device itself, The AV 
> Connection uses
> a female RCA Cable like this one:
>
> http://50.30.33.54/gaolinimages/images/desc/61/20101105/A0366000JE/InsetImage/Practical-1m-35-Audio-to-3-RCA-Female-Cable_2.jpg
>
> (The small black one goes to the projector and the other three females 
> are free)
>
> So what I tried basically was to connect that cable to the projector 
> and then used this one:
>
> http://www.pcwizkid.co.uk/images/usb%20to%203rca.jpg
>
> To connect it to the computer via USB, in theory Fedora should 
> recognize the projector as
> a second "monitor" and then the projector should show the image of the 
> computer in the "AV IN" option right?
> but it doesn't happen :S
>
> When I conect the projector to the computer via AV IN => USB neither 
> the projector
> recognizes the computer or the computer the projector, did a test with 
> a lsusb to confirm...
>
> Am I doing something wrong? does I need a hardware converter or a 
> program in order to this to work?
> Because once I conected my Fedora Laptop to another projector Via VGA 
> cable and the same thing
> happened, with Windows/Mac computers everything worked flawlessly.
>
> Can anyone help??
>
>
       Have you tried?:
           xrandr --output VGA




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