VGA input on laptop?

[AirWolf]

Hi there

How do you get VGA input on a laptop? Can it be done with a KVM switch?

I want to connect a tv box to my laptop.

Thanks

AirWolf

Edit: I have a Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop.

 

[TheRift]

No, KVM switch will not do that. the VGA port on your laptop is an output, not input. Best bet is maybe a USB TV box.

 

[AirWolf]

When I plugged the tv box into the VGA output on my laptop, it changed the display resolution, and when you remove it the resolution returns to normal.

Any particular reason for this happening on a VGA output port?

 

[killadoob]

What tv is it?

 

[AirWolf]

What tv is it?

It is a pc tv box not a tv.

You can use it as a standalone tv with lcd / crt monitor or you can connect it to a pc and switch between pc and tv.

On the display and audio side you would go:

pc --> tv box --> monitor and speakers.

 

[subculture]

Any particular reason for this happening on a VGA output port?

Yes. Windows does that when it detects you are using the other port, however if you are going to try and get input into an output port you will be sitting doing it forever.

i think its the biggest bane of mine with laptops. why dont they just make a vga input?

I wanted to do something similiar with my xbox 360 and beautiful awesome laptop.

 

[AirWolf]

Yes. Windows does that when it detects you are using the other port, however if you are going to try and get input into an output port you will be sitting doing it forever.

i think its the biggest bane of mine with laptops. why dont they just make a vga input?

From the research I've been doing some laptops have an input / output switch for the VGA port.

Mine doesn't unfortunately.

 

[subculture]

From the research I've been doing some laptops have an input / output switch for the VGA port.

Mine doesn't unfortunately.

I never knew that... they should all have it by default.

 

[AirWolf]

From the research I've been doing some laptops have an input / output switch for the VGA port.

Mine doesn't unfortunately.

I never knew that... they should all have it by default.

Some random post in another forum refers to the Lenovo Y730 having a switch on the VGA port, but nothing anywhere else.

at least the Lenovo Y730 has a vga switch (see the manual), and not sure about the inspiron 9400