nVidia drivers and TV-OUT

Lonni J Friedman netllama at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 17:36:15 UTC 2007


The 'nv' X driver doesn't support TV-out.  You'll need to use the
nvidia X driver.

On 4/27/07, Andrew <rhml2 at k1k2.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got a 6600GT AGP card in my desktop and been trying to get it
> to do dual display LCD + TV (for a while) Low-Def TV is PAL-Aus
> On boot it shows the text screen on both the LCD and the TV, but
> when I startx the TV goes strange (nothing that looks like hires
> graphics)
> To make matters worse I just got a 1680x1050 screen and had to
> up my kernel (2.6.20-1.2944.fc6) and upgrade xorg server
> (xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-47.8.fc6) to get that to work
> Preferably as 2 screen rather than duplicating one screen on
> both (since one is 1680x1050 and the TV is WAY smaller than that)
> Can I do that with the nv driver or do I need the driver from
> nVidia?
> Has someone got a sample xorg.conf that works like this?
> I've tried all sorts of options with the nv driver but have been
> unable to get it to work since I'm not sure exactly how xorg.conf
> should look or even if that works with the nv driver, and I can't
> seem to find a clear example googling either
> -Thanks for any help


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