[mythtv-users] xorg.conf for fx5200

[Greg Oliver]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 05, 2010 05:42:22 pm Tom Lichti wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:39 PM, mike at grounded.net <mike at grounded.net> wrote:
>> > By the way, since I have the card installed again, is it worth giving it
>> > one more try? I know it's not showing BIOS but is it at all possible
>> > that's because it has no drivers loaded? Guess I can't recall any TV out
>> > card ever showing BIOS right from powering on.
>> >
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>> If the card is working properly, and the TV out is all that is
>> connected, then yes, it should show the BIOS and boot info on the
>> screen.
>
> That's been my experience, if a VGA monitor is connected that's where I see the BIOS messages, if *only* a TV set is
> connected the BIOS messages will appear there.
>
> This is with 5xxx and 6xxx series nVidia cards.
>
> If the card is installed in a mobo with integrated graphics, the BIOS should be set to "AGP first", "PCI first" or the
> equivalent, else it will output to the on-board VGA connector.

Yep, yep and yep  :)

When that does not work thought, sometimes you just have to punt  !  :)