Re: TV-out on an Nvidia card

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.

- the guide uses the same PCI ID for both the CRT and TV devices, but
then says I should check the TV one against "lspci". Is that right?

Depends on what exactly you want to do. I don't have any PCI IDs at all
in my xorg.conf, but I'm using TwinView (no dual-head needed here) in
Clone mode.

If I comment out all "BusID" statements, X runs, but the TV gets no
signal.

See first paragraph.

0000:01:00.0 nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)

Pretty similar to my card.

Identifier "CRT
HorizSync 28-51
VertRefresh 43-60

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

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