[mythtv-users] Issues with 2 video cards on Slimline 2030n/Ubuntu 10.04

[Robert Johnston]

On 17/08/2010 2:12 PM, Kevin Ross wrote:
> On 08/17/2010 01:03 PM, Tortise wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jessica Perry Hekman"
>> <jphekman at arborius.net>
>> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 11:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Issues with 2 video cards on Slimline
>> 2030n/Ubuntu 10.04
>>
>>
>>> Thanks for the specific advice, that's very helpful as I futz with
>> things like the resolution on the TV-0 screen!
>>
>> Its not clear to me how you are connecting the PC to the TV without
>> the dongle. Using the Motherboard S-video socket? Standard S-Video
>> shouldn't connect into the new video card, however the TV should be
>> connected into the new video card. I don't know how you'd do that
>> without an NVIDIA dongle.
>
> You can't plug an s-video cable into the card? From the pictures on
> Newegg, it looks like it will work.

Yes, you can. The connector on the card is specifically designed to be 
compatible with S-Video, as well as taking the HD breakout dongle (Which 
uses extra pins, as well as the S-Video ones, to provide the Yr/Yv/PB 
(or whatever) signals). So you don't need the HD dongle to run an 
S-Video out from an NVidia card, but you do need it if you want to run 
Component, and you can use a standard S-Video->Composite if you need 
that instead.