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Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2013 6:43 pm**

Hello,

I got my raspberry pi for my birthday back in December 2012.
As it stands i do not have a HDMI TV or monitor and am not currently going to buy one.
I also got a HDMI to Vga but it does not work!
Does anyone know of a good (cheep) solution??

Many thanks,

Jackjbax

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:05 pm**

Hopefully you got a real HDMI to VGA converter and not just an adapter cable. Usually the converters look like this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Chipset-HDM ... 3a7d9892d6

You will need to edit your "/boot/config.txt" file to force the HDMI output to turn on. Otherwise the Pi will not detect an HDMI connection and the video will come out the composite port. To start, just uncomment this line: hdmi_safe=1

That will force the HDMI on and set the video resolution to 640x480. After that works, you can read up on which commands to edit to provide your desired resolution. These are the three I use with my HDMI to VGA adapter and it works on either my TV or my VGA monitor (1366x768). Your resolution may be different.

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framebuffer_width=1366
framebuffer_height=768
hdmi_force_hotplug=1

Posted: **Sat Jan 19, 2013 9:21 pm**

If you can get your hands on a TV with a scart socket you can use one of these scart converters

http://www.maplin.co.uk/high-performanc ... tor-220483

You can then use the RCA socket (Yellow) on the RPi to the Yellow socket on the SCART converter.

Ok you will have some fiddling with the settings but it will work.

This is your cheap solution.

Posted: **Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:22 pm**

Thank you both for you help.

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