On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:27:08PM +0100, Clive Woodfine wrote: > I am trying to show my photo collection on the TV. > > My Sony laptop has Nvidia GeForce Go 7400 Graphics processor. I have > installed nvidia 1.0 driver and run 'nvidia-xconfig > --tv-out-format=SVIDEO' which adds a an SVIDEO option in ifconfig (see > below) but nothing shows on the TV. I have had it working under > Windows but at poor quality. > > I see ifconfig does not show screen resolution these days, should > there be anything for the TV which is a Philips standard analogue? > What am I missing? > > From ifconfig.
I think you mean xorg.conf. ifconfig is for managing network devices... :) > Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO" Without knowing exactly what the option does (I don't have any nVidia hardware), I'd guess that you've told it what format to use when it's asked to do TV-out, but you haven't actually told it to *do* TV out. I don't know if the nVidia drivers support XRandR, but you could try playing around with that. For starters, plug into the TV and run xrandr to see what options you have available to you. You can then try something like: $ xrandr --output TV --auto --same-as LVDS There's a couple of other options in a blog post[1] I made a while ago about this. Hugo. [1] http://carfax.org.uk/blog/xrandr-config -- === Hugo Mills: h...@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Strive for apathy! ---
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