Re: TV-out with nvidia drivers in Fedora 10
On Monday 18 May 2009 06:31:31 am James Allsopp wrote: Does this clone the output, or will I have a different display on each. Ideally, I'd like iplayer running on the TV and carry on working on the other display, Jim my output is cloned since that is what i need for mythtv. you don't have to do it that way though. your first post sounded to me like you wanted a larger desktop. -- Anthony - http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: TV-out with nvidia drivers in Fedora 10
Does this clone the output, or will I have a different display on each. Ideally, I'd like iplayer running on the TV and carry on working on the other display, Jim Anthony Messina wrote: 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 I've been searching around for some information, but most of it seems quite out of date.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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
TV-out with nvidia drivers in Fedora 10
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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: TV-out with nvidia drivers in Fedora 10
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 -- Anthony - http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: TV-out with nvidia drivers in Fedora 10
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 Forgot to attach my xrandr-switch.sh script, which is attached to a button on my MythTV remote: #!/bin/bash if [ $(xrandr -q | grep -c '50.0\*') == 1 ]; then xrandr -r 51.0 nvidia-settings -a XVideoSyncToDisplay=256 else xrandr -r 50.0 fi exit 0 -- Anthony - http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
