[mythtv-users] NVIDIA GeForce4 MX420 TV-OUT

pixel at hourglassone.com acs at hourglassone.com
Fri Jul 11 14:35:26 EDT 2003


Try changing ConnectedMonitor to "TV, CRT" (it seems to me as though the
last listed item is what is used for the primary display).  You might also
need to specify secondMonitorRefresh, etc.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, William Lindner wrote:

> well, I've recently gotten MythTV up and running smoothly and I'm very happy with it.  So now I want to be able to use the TV-Out function with my GeForce4 MX420 graphics card.  The card is installed and it configured it with the default drivers that come with RH9.  I then downloaded NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run from NVIDIA and installed it.  That was fine, but I didn't really notice any changes...  I then went on to manually configure a few more options into the /etc/X11/XF86Config file.  I added these lines:
>
> Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
> Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, TV"
> Option "TVOut Format" "SVIDEO"
> Option "TwinView"
> Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
>
> there is a composite out and a S-Video out along with the typical monitor out on the back of this card.  When I try the composite out it will display the text on the television but when X tries to start it does not work and the screen just goes blank.  If I try to start it without the monitor connected and just the composite out to the composite in on the television then I will get strange blue blotches all over the screen which occasionally move around (I know it sounds weird...).  So I tried the S-Video out because I have a nicer television with S-Video input which I know works.  It has no response whatsoever.  Please ask if you need more explanation or anything.  Thanks in advance.



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