Re: TV-out on an Nvidia card

In article <slrnepr8fb.lr9.danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dances With Crows <daSPANnceswithcroTRAPws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:08:01 GMT, Hactar staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
Anyhow, one of my first steps is to make X display on the TV [with an
nVidia video card]. I found the excellent HOWTO
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=98456 and did that
- the video driver "nvidia" doesn't exist, whereas "nv" does.

IIRC, the nv module doesn't support TV-out. There is no mention of any
TV support in any of the docs for nv. Your best bet is to install the
evil binary-only nVidia module and use it. Read Appendix H of the
README that comes with the evil modules, follow its directions.

OK, will do. The "nvidia" module requires the kernel source, and
Synaptic insists on using a remote repository, even though I have
the CD I installed Ubuntu from; surely it's on there. This is a
no-go when I have no working network interface.

I saw the URL Synaptic tried to use, downloaded the file (well not the
_exact_ file; it asked for *-2.6.15_26.46*; that wasn't there, but
*-2.6.15_later.version* was) and got it into the machine using
sneakernet, and installed it using some GUI tool. But Synaptic
apparently does something extra, for that just left a *.tar.bz2 file.
I decompressed/extracted the *.tar.bz2, and created /usr/src/linux ->
linux-2.6.15.whatever . cd /usr/src/linux ; sudo make menuconfig .
Need curses. Crap crap crap... will this never end...

Identifier "CRT
HorizSync 28-51
VertRefresh 43-60

That seems really narrow for a CRT. Most people find 60Hz irritates
their eyeballs.

Probably would annoy me too eventually. My hope is that TV-out will work
before long, and I won't need the CRT then. In the mean time I'll try to
find actual specs for this monitor.

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-eben QebWenE01R@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx royalty.no-ip.org:81

Drive nail here > < for new monitor.
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