Hi, we bought our son a Raspberry Pi 3 starterkit for Christmas and unbeknown to me the monitor I bought didn’t have HDMI - I have got the Pi Hut HDMI to vga adapter but the monitor keeps flashing everytime he clicks the mouse…
I guess you have to look at, and maybe edit, your config.txt file? That’s lame? Google says there should be an Advanced options in raspi-config, but I’m not seeing it?
There’s a table of screen resolutions at the bottom, and you should be able to find the correct one from where you purchased the monitor, or from the box/specifications.
If it’s “HD” it’ll be 1920x1080
If it’s “HD Ready” it’ll probably be 1360x768 but could also be 1280x720
If it’s a computer monitor it could be anything, but is most likely to be 1920x1080 - aka 1080p - these days.
You’ll need to either take the SD card and place it in another computer to work on- in which case you’ll see a drive called “BOOT” pop up, with config.txt on it, or run “Terminal” on your Pi, which you can find like so:
The HP L2045w has a resolution of 1680x1050 according to the specifications. Which means the following added to the bottom of your /boot/config.txt may send it the right signal (although the VGA adapter can add a spanner in the works):
It looks like it has a DVI-D connector in the back, too, under certain circumstances it’s possible to get an HDMI->DVI cable or adapter that will fit that port.
Do you see a port on the back of your monitor that would fit this adapter? Pay careful attention to the pins, it should look at least like this- with the little slot on one end:
If all else fails with the VGA adapter, then I believe this should work as long as the port in the monitor has that slot, ie: is keyed for the adapter.
Possibly but there’s still a chance it could require similar settings. It’s difficult to tell without testing the exact monitor. It’s definitely worth adding the above into /boot/config.txt first and seeing how it goes first.