Re: TV Out on Linux

From: Mauriat (usenet_at_NOSPAMmjmwired[dot)
Date: 08/26/03 

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:15:25 -0500

Adam wrote:
> I have a video card with a TV Out. Will it work on Linux? I would have
> thought it would be completely hardware, in other words you would be
> able to simply plug it in to a TV and whatever is going to the monitor
> goes to the TV too, but alas, it didn't work. How do you make them
> work?
>
> My specific video card is a GEForce4.

Install the accelerated Linux drivers from nvidia.com.
Read the README on how to enable TVout, I beleive it is in the TwinView
options settings.

Someone put together an app to make things easier:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nv-tv-out/ 

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