Joe Barnhart wrote:

--- Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


To reply to my own post...

Ian wrote:



Issues:
1) Unfortunately, it seems that the card/driver


wants to only alllow

what it thinks are valid tv modes. Now I don't


know if this is a

hardware limitation or a driver limitation. I'm


hoping that it is

just the driver trying to protect the end-user and


there is an

(undocumented?) option to turn off this


validation. See below for my

setup and log output.


OOPS - I glossed over the driver option "TVStandard"
that can be set to HD modes - I'll try setting it to HD720p instead of
NTSC-M when I get home. That is probably the culprit.



The answer is even simpler: The S-Video port can't be
used to display anything above "standard" TV
resolution, i.e. 480i. To use any of the high-def
modes, you must use VGA or component video outputs. VGA to component adapter boxes exist to enable such
connections for TVs which do not have VGA inputs.


Thanks, I know I can go that way but I wanted to run with a dual head setup for a while.

FYI, I have 1024x768 running out of the S-Video port and it looks great. You can certainly break outside of the standard TV resolutions - just don't mess with the aspect ratio.

I tried setting the TVStandard option to HD720p or HD540p and it still complained that my modelines were "not a valid TV mode". And it also didn't apply any of the default standard resolutions. :(

Doesn't seem like anyone else here has had this problem, I got an account on the nvforum setup finally so I'll bring this there.

Ian.
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