If you want to check whether yours has chances, use an empty /boot/config.txt file and add hdmi_safe=1 to it. Most probably there will be converters which won't work and VGA displays which won't be supported, but my feeling is most of them work just fine - with some extra steps. It is important to not just give up when the adaptor/converter doesn't seem to work out of the box. The user guide lists the hdmi_group values as 1 or 2. Raspberry Pi User Guide by Eben Upton has the video modes in the appendix. Modification for Dell 15' Monitor with Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 OS So my current file looks like: hdmi_drive=2 The article at also suggests that the hdmi_group values documented should be 0 and 1 not 1 and 2 and indeed I needed to change hdmi_group to 1. The monitor also complains that it wants 1024x768 at 60Hz which is hdmi_mode=16. One problem seems to be that the default output signal level is not sufficient so setting config_hdmi_boost=4 seems necessary. I still cannot get my Samsung 943N to see anything but a simple Dell generic 15' VGA monitor works fine. The Neewer HDMI to VGA converter lead from Amazon does indeed work with the RPi but as has been reported elsewhere you have to do a bit of fine tuning in the /boot/config.txt file.

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