Re: TV-out on an Nvidia card

ebenZEROONE@xxxxxxxxxxx (Hactar) writes:

In article <slrnepr8fb.lr9.danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dances With Crows <daSPANnceswithcroTRAPws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 don't use Ubuntu - Debian for all thing, just like magick.

I think, you can use dpkg, directly pointing to package name, which you
want to install.

So, mount cd wich Ubuntu installated from and

$ sudo dpkg -i /cdrom/directory/where/is/your_package_name.deb

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...

So, in my debian sarge, I've installed package linux-image-2.6.18-3-k7,
and linux-headers-2.6.18-3-k7 from backports.org, using aptitude.

Linux headers I'm using instead of kernel sources package.

And I'm download latest binary driver from nvidia.com, and this driver
was compiled without any warnings and errors.

No need any ncurses. Btw, I think you need package with ncurses headers
too (*-dev in debian).

See my /usr/src listing:

kernel-headers-2.6.8-2
kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386
kernel-kbuild-2.6-3
linux -> linux-headers-2.6.18-3-k7/
linux-headers-2.6.18-3
linux-headers-2.6.18-3-k7
linux-kbuild-2.6.18

--
Roman
http://blog.romanlagunov.ru JID: fire_ant@xxxxxxxxx
.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Amusing conversation with Rockler customer service
    ... The software they package with those ... printers, on the other hand, is some of the worst crap I've ever used. ... install the basic drivers without all the other crap? ... No if only the manual would have said that I and the tech would not have ...
    (rec.woodworking)
  • Re: Problem: Horizontal gray stripes behind text (Additional Info)
    ... was fine till yesterday and the only software I tried to install was a vpn ... I can get a display of the monitor sync rates by using controls on the ... Suddenly grey stripes started appearing ... #You may want to try the evil binary-only nVidia kernel module and X ...
    (comp.os.linux.x)
  • Re: Are these working under linux
    ... If this is < 6 months old, you definitely want to install ... the newest version of your favorite distro, to make sure the IDE chipset ... The SATA chipset *should* work, but again, ... No problem with the evil binary-only nvidia kernel module and X module. ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)
  • Re: par2cmdline RPM for SUSE 10?
    ... installing rogue software can really crap up the ... How do I remove a bad package / install? ... What if the installation package changes or overwrites core OS ... Or doesn't that happen in Linux? ...
    (alt.os.linux.suse)
  • Errors applying kernel patch 118833-36
    ... install of Solaris 10 11/06. ... However, once the package list is done, I see a worrisome message: ... Below is the complete console output of the patch run. ... Changes for package SUNWnfsskr will not be applied to the system. ...
    (SunManagers)