[mythtv-users] Nvidia just released 8756.

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 9 16:00:17 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"
hat still did not work for me. For some reason, SVIDEO/TV is not seen.
Here's the error:

===============================
(--) NVIDIA(0): Envision ENVISIONEN-710e (CRT-0): 350 MHz maximum pixel
clock
(II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-0
(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "1024x768"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "800x600"
(II) NVIDIA(0):     "640x480"
(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768
(--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (81, 81); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
option
(**) NVIDIA(1): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(1): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(1): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(1): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(1): Option "NvAGP" "1"
(**) NVIDIA(1): Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
(**) NVIDIA(1): Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
(**) NVIDIA(1): Option "TVOverScan" "1.0"
(**) NVIDIA(1): Option "UseDisplayDevice" "TV-0"
(**) NVIDIA(1): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(**) NVIDIA(1): Forcing SVIDEO output
(**) NVIDIA(1): TV Standard string: "NTSC-M"
(II) NVIDIA(1): NVIDIA GPU GeForce4 MX 4000 at PCI:1:0:0
(--) NVIDIA(1): VideoRAM: 65536 kBytes
(--) NVIDIA(1): VideoBIOS: 04.18.20.36.00
(II) NVIDIA(1): Detected AGP rate: 8X
(--) NVIDIA(1): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
(--) NVIDIA(1): Connected display device(s) on GeForce4 MX 4000 at
PCI:1:0:0:
(--) NVIDIA(1):     Envision ENVISIONEN-710e (CRT-0)
(--) NVIDIA(1): Envision ENVISIONEN-710e (CRT-0): 350 MHz maximum pixel
clock
(WW) NVIDIA(1): Unable to find any of the requested display device "TV-0" in
(WW) NVIDIA(1):     the list of available display devices "".
(EE) NVIDIA(1): Unable to find available Display Devices for screen 1.
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "ramdac"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
===============================

Any ideas? I didn't find any instruction to create a list of available
display devices. BTW: where did you see the option

UseDisplayDevice "TV-0"

I didn't see that in the man page nor on the x.org site.


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