Lots of good info here: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6629/README.txt Appendix I and J will be of particulr use Modelines are a pain though, I recently gave up on trying to get my DVI to HDMI cable output working on my Panny HDTV and went back to SVideo output as I could not get a satisfactory modeline other than 720x480 which was not what I was looking for.
Good luck Robin On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:04:13 -0600, Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Cory, > > Yeah, your guess was correct. I connected my 6600 card to HDTV via the DVI > cable. > > Cory Papenfuss writes: > > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Neil wrote: > > > >> Hi, I spent more than 5 hours trying to figure out how to make use of my > >> HDTV. I was able to install the latest nvidia drivers on 2.6.11-rc4 and I > >> am able to see X in my computer monitor fine. However, I want to see in > >> my HDTV what I am seeing in my computer monitor. I think, they call it > >> twinview. I'm also sure that my HDTV supports 1920x1080i since I > >> installed windowsXP and latest nvidia windows driver and was able to see > >> my Windows in hdtv however, there is an overscan(i'll fix this later). > >> Also, I don't know if these modlines I captured via monifo is usefull for > >> xorg.conf entries. http://restricted.dyndns.org/moninfo.txt Can someone > >> please send me a working xorg.conf that will be appropriate for VGA and > >> DVI connections? Thanks, Neil > > > > You didn't say how you had everything connected. I'm assuming that > > you > > have an nvidia card with both VGA and DVI and you've connected to the HDTV > > via the DVI port. Nvidia uses a dual-head doodad called 'Twinview'... you > > need to look through the README that came with the NVidia linux driver to > > figure out how to turn it on. It sounds like you're looking for "Clone" > > mode, as opposed to "RightOf" or "LeftOf". > > > > That said, I believe NVidia drivers are known to be broken for 1080i > > at > > the moment. I haven't tried any of this recently, however, so my > > knowledge is stale and unreliable... :) > > > > -Cory > > > > ************************************************************************* > > * Cory Papenfuss * > > * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student * > > * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * > > ************************************************************************* > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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