Hannu Vuolasaho wrote: > > ---------------------------------------- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [CinCV] Modeline for PAL etc >> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 17:42:29 +0200 >> >> I'm searching for a modeline/xrandr spell to turn my laptop video (intel >> GM965/GL960) out to native PAL (interlaced). > > First of all, I don't believe you want to run your laptop LCD with 720x576i > mode. The LCD > is always progressive and it would look terrible even you didn't scale it to > full screen. And LCD > refresh rate is something else than 50Hz. And LCD displays look good only > when running in native resolution.
this laptop has no TV out, but VGA out, and I want native PAL signal to drive CRT or beamers (well Beamers are LCD's or DLP's but i think they handle interlacing better than normal LCD monitors). The idea is to use the external output to present/monitor PAL with most native signal. > > Second thing is that TV-out usually generates itself right timings and > interlaced image. > How it is enabled depends your HW, setup and what you want. With nvidia we > have twinview and > X comes with xinerama and then we have xrandr. > > So to get real PAL, NTSC or whatever video format is wanted is done with HW. > I believe you > have to just use Option lines enable the TV-out. And xorg.conf can also tell > the display be > 720x576 as eextended or scale the desktop or just take part of the screen. I > used to have > rectangle in background image which was sent to TV-out :) > > But really good X configuration help site would be great. Now that you are > really going to > learn the configuration of X, you should make it thoroughly :) > > If you are good with html, you could create xorg.conf generator which asks > resolutions > and order of monitors and which driver to use and then create simple > xorg.conf with > different server layouts. Like xinerama, mirror, TV-out as extended desktop > and > TV-out as part of desktop, TV-out as mirror of desktop. > > Just my two (Euro) cents > > Hannu Vuolasaho > _________________________________________________________________ > Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger > http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
