TV-out/TwinView not working with GeForce4 MX440

Janez Košmrlj janezkosmr at volja.net
Mon Apr 5 06:59:00 UTC 2004


Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Sa, den 03.04.2004 schrieb Ben Vitale um 22:39:
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>>Thank you for your response, but I don't understand.  You are suggesting 
>>that I *should* use the NVidia closed source driver?  That is what I am 
>>using. "nvidia" is the closed source one.  If I choose the XFree "nv" 
>>driver, then TwinView is not available.
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>Slap me, I confused myself :}
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>You are totally right, nv is from XFree and nvidia is from NVidia.
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>So go through the XFree.0.log for entries with (EE) or (WW).
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>>I commented out the DRI line and restarted X, there was no change in result.
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>The DRI module entry in the Module section is then bad. See the NVidia
>readme. Causes trouble for certain.
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>>>Maybe http://yanc.sourceforge.net/ is helpful for you.
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>>This tool produces the same configuration that I already have with 
>>respect to TwinView.
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>Ok. Maybe you should have to play with DDC and EDID.
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>>Ben
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>Alexander
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i have the same problem with my geforce 3 ti200 card and i allredy tried 
yanc and an example xfree config from 
http://arsis.net/fedora/NVIDIA_TV-OUT_HOWTO.html





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