Hi JC, On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:48 AM, J.C. Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could you post (or privately email) your xorg.conf and X.org.log > > I don't know a thing about S-Video and have never heard of "Scart" > before, but we might be able to get the TV Out (Composite Video) > working on that card with the default driver. > > At one point in time, the TV Out on nVidia cards was handled by a > separate chipset (brooktree/conexant/philips/?) but I doubt that is the > case on GeForce4mx and newer cards. None the less, the trick with cards > that have multiple outputs is making sure you're talking to the right > output. The nv(4) driver will try to auto-detect if an output device is > connected (monitor/TV/?) but it may not get it right and may default to > the wrong output. > > There are two things you can try: > 1.) Force access to the TV Out interface through the BusID > (see xorg.conf(5)) > > BusID "PCI:1:0:0" > # or > BusID "PCI:2:0:0" > > 2.) Force access to the TV Out interface through CrtcNumber > (see nv(4)) > > Option "CrtcNumber" "integer" > > You can often coerce (force) video cards with multiple outputs to play > nicely even when they are such total garbage that the vendor (nVidia) > is afraid to provide specifications for them. > > There is one issue I see that might be a problem, namely NTSC versus PAL > but a lot of TV sets these days can accept either, so we might get > lucky. If not, the PAL modelines you posted look reasonable. > > Kind Regards, > JCR >
This sounds great! I think we should take this off list perhaps to stop boring people. Bye misc@ Which xorg.conf would you like? I tried many configurations. I guess its the log you are more interested in. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett
