TV-out/TwinView not working with GeForce4 MX440

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Sat Apr 3 21:16:15 UTC 2004


Am Sa, den 03.04.2004 schrieb Ben Vitale um 22:39:

> 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.

Slap me, I confused myself :}

You are totally right, nv is from XFree and nvidia is from NVidia.

So go through the XFree.0.log for entries with (EE) or (WW).

> I commented out the DRI line and restarted X, there was no change in result.

The DRI module entry in the Module section is then bad. See the NVidia
readme. Causes trouble for certain.

> >Maybe http://yanc.sourceforge.net/ is helpful for you.

> This tool produces the same configuration that I already have with 
> respect to TwinView.

Ok. Maybe you should have to play with DDC and EDID.

> Ben

Alexander


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