Very confused Mini DVI to Video Converter - please help!

I have a iBook G4 that I use as my home ents hub, I purchased a DVI to Video converter which worked well for about a week until one day my Mac started recognising it as a VGA adapter.
When the adapter's plugged in the only options in the displays preferences panel are for VGA resolutions, no PAL or NTSC settings and I get a squiggly black screen on my TV.
The adapter works perfectly well with my friend's identical iBook and on his iMac too.
The mini DVI port on my mac works fine when hooked up to a VGA monitor.
HELP!!!! Until I get this fixed I'm stuck watching Lost on a 12" screen, which *****.

I have the exact same problem. For years my iBook has output happily to the tv via the Mini-VGA -> Composite/SVIDEO adaptor. Suddenly it stopped working and recognizes the adaptor as a VGA-Monitor.
I've tried resetting the PMU, flashing the PRAM and NVRAM, "shoving" the cable into the socket, deleting com.apple.windowserver.plist files...
Please help...

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pblazen
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I dont think you understand. Yes, it does use the same connections - it all connects up properly. But after 2009 the white macbooks no longer recognize the TV-Out when you connect the mini-DVI to Video adaptor.
On my old 2007 white intel macbook that had the old graphics card, i was able to connect it all up then go into display preferences and it allowed me to set up the screens as i wanted (ie mirrored, side by side etc). Now, under displays settings, that is no where to be seen.
Its a nothing to do with anyhting being wrong, its just known that Apple discontinued support for it. Even on the apple store website here, you will see in small print under the adapter that it is not supported on white macbooks from 2009 January onwards.
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