Sony TFT LCD display connectivity

[SteveD]

Help please

Can I connect my RPi to a 10 year old Sony TFT LCD display monitor? The monitor has only one input which is labelled as an HD15 input. So I bought a cable which converts HDMI to HD15 set it up and was expecting it to work. But nothing, the display goes into power saving mode and seems to assume that nothing is connected.

Newb user, forgive naivety.

Thanks v much, Steve

[JeremyF]

HD15 is VGA, you can search the forums for HDMI-VGA or you can read here:

http://elinux.org/RPi_VerifiedPeriphera ... y_adapters

[JeremyF]

Actually, can I see what you bought? (a link to it I mean)

[SteveD]

Thanks v much. Tried a bunch of switches in the config.txt, they didn't seem to make much difference. Monitor comes on but does simply switches off almost instantly as it thinks no cable is present. Ah, well.

Thanks for the pointer.
Steve

[SteveD]

Sorry, yes, you can see what i bought.

Here is a link to the old, but respectable, monitor

http://www.docs.sony.com/release/HS_75_95_GB.pdf

Here is the cable I bought from Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008 ... 00_s00_i00

thanks for looking, Steve

[JeremyF]

Sorry, yes, you can see what i bought.

Here is a link to the old, but respectable, monitor

http://www.docs.sony.com/release/HS_75_95_GB.pdf

Here is the cable I bought from Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008 ... 00_s00_i00

thanks for looking, Steve

Yep, there's your problem right there. What you bought is not an active cable, so it cannot convert the digital HDMI to analog VGA (HD15)

[SteveD]

Thanks v much. Steve