On 11:15 am 09/11/06 Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, Its in the box, now I would appreciate some setup advice > please. > > lspci reports the card as a nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX > 5600XT] (rev a1) > > I downloaded & installed the latest nvidia driver and found that > nvidia-xconfig produces a useless xorg.conf file. Yes I did backup > the original which works in term mode so reactivated it. The tv > clones the monitor with color in text only but goes blank with X > running. > > I then used the sample conf file provided, removed all optional / > duplicated sections which do not apply to TwinView and altered the > specs for my monitor etc. I have tried it with the tv set to > 'RightOf' & 'Clone' > > The resulting xorg.conf file works but I have 2 problems, > > 1. The output to tv via svideo is b/w only > > 2. When I shut down X using ctrl/alt/bs the monitor reverts to a > resolution of 480x360 but the text does not scale and is unreadable. > Entering startx still works. > > xorg.conf probably needs tweeking, but where do I start? Color > commands somewhere?
You are probably outputting in NTSC format rather than PAL. You need to read the nvidia readme file which is probably under /usr/share/doc/nvidia* or you can get it on the net: http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8774/README/index.html > > TIA > > Barry
