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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
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