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I'm trying to connect a Sony HDTV KDL-32XBR6 to my iBook G4 1,33 GHz via the mini VGA adapter and a VGA Male to Male cable. I'm also running Screen Spanning Doctor 0.3.3 to expand the iBook G4's display capabilities. But the Sony TV doesn't show anything at the PC input (VGA port). It says unsupported signal. I've tried other resolutions (all the recomended in the TV manual), even mirroring and nothing works. So I decided to try with my B&W G3 wich has a ATI RADEON 7000 and got the same results. The only way I could see something was using the S-Video output from the RADEON and plugging to the Sony's S-Video input with limited resolutions and at 4:3 aspect ratio. Is it the TV or the male cable?
Thanks for any ideas

It was a bad VGA cable. I replaced it with one that comes with filters and it works perfectly.

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