Chicken and Egg

[James Purser]

On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 11:45 +1100, Gregory Storer wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 13:24 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Gregory Storer <gps at storer.com.au> wrote:
> > > I still use the XP machine for watching movies, haven't yet found a way
> > > to successfully watch then with Ubuntu - and have had trouble with the
> > > video card trying to get it to play nicely with the TV.  
> > 
> > What's your video chipset? Maybe we can help you with that :)
> 
> Thanks.  Its an nvidia GEForce FX5500.  I have download and run the
> NVIDIA Xserver settings program, and also tried this fix:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaTVOut
> without much success.  The TV screen always reverts to "disabled" in the
> NVIDA program, no matter which settings I choose.  Clearly I've got the
> wrong settings in my Xorg.conf file - which I've pasted at the bottom of
> this message.

Here's the Device section from Xorg config file. It might help,
specifically the TwinView portion.

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "NVIDIA Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"
        Driver          "nvidia"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        Option          "TwinView" "true"
        Option          "TwinVIewOrientation" "Clone"
        Option          "TVOutFormat" "S-VIDEO"
        Option          "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
        Option          "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
        Option          "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
        Option          "MetaModes"
"1024x768,1024x768;800x600,800x600;640x480,640x480;512x384,512,384"
EndSection


-- 
James Purser <purserj at k-sit.com>
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