On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 13:24 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Gregory Storer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still use the XP machine for watching movies, haven't yet found a way > > to successfully watch then with Ubuntu - and have had trouble with the > > video card trying to get it to play nicely with the TV. > > What's your video chipset? Maybe we can help you with that :)
Thanks. Its an nvidia GEForce FX5500. I have download and run the NVIDIA Xserver settings program, and also tried this fix: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaTVOut without much success. The TV screen always reverts to "disabled" in the NVIDA program, no matter which settings I choose. Clearly I've got the wrong settings in my Xorg.conf file - which I've pasted at the bottom of this message. > > Overall, I want to throw Windows out the window. My kids still use XP, > > some of the online games, especially those with shockwave, won't work on > > a linux machine. > > Shockwave works through WINE. Flash already works well natively. From my > experience, Linux is an excellent choice for children. The breadth and > quality of FOSS software for children and education is phenomenal. I hadn't tried WINE, as I assumed it require a good deal of knowledge to get it up and running. What a surprise that was, so simple and straight forward! Greg. # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thu Nov 9 17:56:12 PST 2006 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "Xinerama" "0" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" # HorizSync source: xconfig, VertRefresh source: xconfig Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "CRT-0" HorizSync 28.0 - 64.0 VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce FX 5500" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "metamodes" "CRT: 1280x1024 +0+0; CRT: 1024x768 +0+0; CRT: 800x600 +0+0; CRT: 640x480 +0+0" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
