TV-out with nvidia drivers in Fedora 10

[Anthony Messina]

On Saturday 16 May 2009 09:41:04 am James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get the TV out from my GeForce FX5200 to work. I'd ideally
> like it to be on at the same time as my flat screen and with my desktop
> extended onto it. I've been searching around for some information, but
> most of it seems quite out of date. I've got the proprietary Nvidia
> drivers installed at the moment.
>
> I've checked all this and got working under Windows, just need it to
> work in Linux.
>
> Does anyone have any advice on how to achieve this,
> Much appreciated,
> James Allsopp

I use the TV out to drive a component projector (with the dongle) for my 
MythTV setup. For me, I either want the projector on (and the DFP off), or 
vice versa so I use XRandR to switch between them.  If you want both of them 
on at the same time, replace the NULL values in the metamodes option with the 
appropriate values.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "TwinView Layout"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Device0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "NoLogo" "TRUE"
        Option      "UseEvents" "TRUE"
        Option      "TwinView" "TRUE"
        Option      "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
        Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP, TV"
        Option      "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-0, TV-0"
        Option      "TVStandard" "HD1080i"
# Start with the DPF at 1920x1080 with the TV off (nVidia XRandR "fake rate 
50")
# Allow switch to the TV at 1920x1080 with the DFP off (nVidia XRandR "fake 
rate 51")
        Option      "MetaModes" "DFP-0: 1920x1080, TV-0: NULL; DFP-0:NULL, 
TV-0: 1920x1080"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier  "Screen0"
        Device      "Device0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth   24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
        Option  "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection

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