Ronald J. Hall wrote:
On Monday 30 December 2002 08:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:First download the Nvidia screen drivers and install not forgetting
I have now got all this working.I'd be interested in that.... Thanks! :-)
I can now display any programme I have on computer via any tv screen in the
property, including such matters as mplayer, xine, divx,
anyone who maybe interested only has to ask
John
I have an Nvidia Geforce TI4200 with 64 megs...
to change ,/etc/X11/XF86Config-4,
Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
from Driver"nv"
I dare say you already have done that .
Then using www.rpmfind.net search
for nvtv and download the rpm,
nvtv-0.4.2-1mdk.i586.rpm,
or somewhere on I think it was sourceforge
the binaries nvtv-bin-0.4.2.tar.gz
either will do. and install one or the other.
if you use the tar file just unzip it and place it
on desktop for now as nvtv and click
on it and up comes a nice little window,
please see file figure attatched.
From here play with the setting for the setup
that suits your tv and screen,
I chose 720x575 DVD 00.21x00.00 DVD
and that creates a new window that is the
desktop screen displayed and ultimately
what you will be sending out. to the tv.
You can then plug an s-video lead into the tvout
on you video card to the back of the tv ,but
as I don't do it this way I'm not sure what lead you
require, so experiment.
I do something different.
I bought a " RF THROUGHT MODULATOR"
from Maplins , UK, not all that expensive
as a matter of interest, about �30 with the bits.
I chose to sight this next to my computer.
it comes with a power supply so just plug that
in and power it up.
Run a coaxial cable from the moulator to
the TV aerial booter and splitter.
run an audio cable from computer to modulator
run an svideo cable from TVout socket to modulator,
Now this is a bit tricky. The tvout is a regular
svideo socket with four pins that matter like
this , * * ------------------- middle pin
* *
|___________|__________ outside pin
The modulator"video in" has a two contact jackplug
inner and outer and have to be soldered as above.
You can buy a converter that does the same thing but
they are like gold dust to abtain from and uk supplier
right now, so this way gets around the problem.It
just takes longer to fiddle with a soldering iron.
All is ready to play,
Just tune one of your spare tv channels to the
frequency of the modulator and all should work
When you actually come to watch a film or something
you have to teach the display window to resize itself
so that it come up the correct size to fill the whole of
your tv screen properly, a little trial and error gets
you there.
now, if you want close down and return to your normal
desktop anytime just hit f2 on your keyboard.
My family can watch a movie on my computer
on ant tv in the property, they only have to choose
the correct channel and put the movie in
my computer.
John
John
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