[mythtv-users] Nvidia just released 8756.

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 9 04:51:26 UTC 2006


Harry Orenstein wrote:
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 10:37 pm, Brad Fuller wrote:
>   
>> Greg Grotsky wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm trying it now...
>>>       
>> Anyone using SVIDEO out for TV (fe/be)?
>>
>> When using this new nvidia driver, I can't get my second xserver to
>> start, but it did in v7676 fine (I have a CRT on the VGA connector and a
>> TV on the SVIDEO connector.)
>>
>>  I get the following errors in Xorg.0.log:
>>
>> (EE) NVIDIA(1): Unable to find available Display Devices for screen 1.
>> (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
>> (II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
>> (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
>>
>>
>> Screen 0 (a CRT) works fine.
>>
>> And, xorg sees the screen at the beginning of boot:
>>
>> (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Apr  8 19:25:16 2006
>> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>> (==) ServerLayout "single-head configuration"
>> (**) |-->Screen "ScreenLCD" (0)
>> (**) |   |-->Monitor "MonitorLCD"
>> (**) |   |-->Device "nvidiaLCD"
>> (**) |-->Screen "ScreenTV" (1)
>> (**) |   |-->Monitor "MonitorTV"
>> (**) |   |-->Device "nvidiaTV"
>>
>> And, I can see the boot text on the TV as the machine is booting.
>>
>>
>> On a lark, here's a question:
>> I installed the *686 version of the kernel modules from atrpms.  Do you
>> think that has anything to do with it since I'm on a Athlon64 3200 (I'm
>> in 32 bit mode).   Just grabbing for anything here. It's got me stumped.
>> Everything else seems to work fine (I can start mythtv on the CRT and it
>> runs ok.)
>>
>> thanks
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>
>
> Brad,
>
> I got it to work using:
>
> UseDisplayDevice "TV-0"
>
> instead of:
>
> ConnectedMonitor "TV"
>
> now, if I could just figure out how to do 800x600.  It seems to no longer be 
> available as a valid mode.  Only 1024x768, 720x480 and 640x480 appear to be 
> valid with the new driver.  Two steps forward, one step back.
>
> Anyone out there know how to get 800x600 working on TV with the latest driver?  
> I tried using a few of the modelines in the user mailing list archive, but no 
> dice.
>   
Hi Harry,

I'll try that, Thanks!

I only use 640x480, you might try and see how that looks on the TV.


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