DVI mini to Video S-video out?

I am trying to connect my Mac book to my tv and I'm having a few issues. I bought the Mini dvi converter (twice now that i thought the first was busted) and have tried to connect to 3 different tv's but I am either getting a black screen or a flickering screen. Does anyone know of any settings that i need to change to fix this?

I have the same problem. I tried every resolution from my MacBook to the TV and it doesn't work. I also get the black screen with the flickering. So on a Macbook does anyone have an idea of how to get around this? Are you saying you use a Mini DVI to VGA and then to S Video?

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