Oops, that should have been obvious. xorg.conf file is below. My card is an nVidia 440MX with SVIDEO out.<br>
<br>
#BEGIN<br>
<br>
Section "ServerLayout"<br>
Identifier "<a href="http://X.org">X.org</a> Configured"<br>
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0<br>
# InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"<br>
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Files"<br>
RgbPath "/usr/lib/X11/rgb"<br>
ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules"<br>
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"<br>
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"<br>
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"<br>
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/CID/"<br>
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"<br>
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Module"<br>
Load "extmod"<br>
Load "dri"<br>
Load "dbe"<br>
Load "record"<br>
Load "xtrap"<br>
Load "glx"<br>
Load "type1"<br>
Load "freetype"<br>
Load "v4l"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "InputDevice"<br>
Identifier "Keyboard0"<br>
Driver "kbd"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
#Section "InputDevice"<br>
# Identifier "Mouse0"<br>
# Driver "mouse"<br>
# Option "Protocol" "auto"<br>
# Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"<br>
#EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Monitor"<br>
Identifier "Monitor0"<br>
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"<br>
ModelName "Monitor Model"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Device"<br>
Option "HWcursor"
"true"
# [<bool>]<br>
Option "NvAGP"
"1"
# <i><br>
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"<br>
Option "RenderAccel"
"true" # [<bool>]<br>
Option "Overlay" "true"<br>
Option "CIOverlay" "true"<br>
Option "ForceEmulatedOverlay" "true"<br>
Option "OverlayDefaultVisual" "true"<br>
Option "HorizSync" "30-50"<br>
Option "VertRefresh" "60"<br>
<br>
Identifier "Card0"<br>
Driver "nvidia"<br>
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"<br>
BoardName "NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]"<br>
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"<br>
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"<br>
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
Section "Screen"<br>
Identifier "Screen0"<br>
Device "Card0"<br>
Monitor "Monitor0"<br>
SubSection "Display"<br>
Viewport 0 0<br>
Depth 1<br>
EndSubSection<br>
SubSection "Display"<br>
Viewport 0 0<br>
Depth 4<br>
EndSubSection<br>
SubSection "Display"<br>
Viewport 0 0<br>
Depth 8<br>
EndSubSection<br>
SubSection "Display"<br>
Viewport 0 0<br>
Depth 15<br>
EndSubSection<br>
SubSection "Display"<br>
Viewport 0 0<br>
Depth 16<br>
EndSubSection<br>
SubSection "Display"<br>
Viewport 0 0<br>
Depth 24<br>
EndSubSection<br>
EndSection<br>
<br>
#END<br>
<br>
<br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/16/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Derek Meek</b> <<a href="mailto:thekazan@gmail.com">thekazan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://x.org">x.org</a> config please<br><br>Brian M. Sperlongano wrote:<br><br>> Hi all,<br>><br>> I'm having trouble getting my Xorg configured properly...it's probably<br>> something simple, but it seems to have something to do with XV. I
<br>> must confess I know little about Xorg configuration. I can't get<br>> mplayer, tvtime, xawtv, etc to run because they complain about not<br>> having overlay support.<br>><br>> I'm using a PVR-500, 0.3.9
ivtv drivers. I have at one point in the<br>> past gotten video out of the /dev/videoX devices, and I'm pretty sure<br>> they work...I believe X is configured incorrectly. I've included<br>> error output from each of the three programs below.
<br>><br>> For tvtime, my output is:<br>><br>> localhost ~ # DISPLAY=:0.0 tvtime<br>> Running tvtime 0.9.15.<br>> Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml<br>> Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
<br>> xcommon: No window properties found for EWMH.<br>> xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.<br>><br>> *** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card<br>> *** driver. If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
<br>> *** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.<br>> *** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental<br>> *** GATOS drivers: <a href="http://gatos.souceforge.net/">http://gatos.souceforge.net/
</a><br>> *** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your<br>> *** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.<br>><br>> For xawtv, my output is:<br>><br>> localhost ~ # DISPLAY=:0.0 xawtv
<br>> This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.12-gentoo-r10)<br>> switching visual (0x26)<br>> /dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support<br>> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway<br>> Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-ledfixed-medium-r-*--39-*-
<br>> *-*-c-*-*-*" to type FontStruct<br>> no way to get: 0x0 8 bit StaticGray<br>><br>><br>> And, here's a sample from mplayer:<br>><br>> localhost ~ # mplayer /dev/video1<br>> MPlayer 1.0pre7try2-3.3.6
(C) 2000-2005 MPlayer Team<br>> CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon 4 /Athlon MP/XP Palomino (Family:<br>> 6, Stepping: 2)<br>> Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes<br>> MMX supported but disabled<br>> MMX2 supported but disabled
<br>> SSE supported but disabled<br>> 3DNow supported but disabled<br>> 3DNowExt supported but disabled<br>> CPUflags: MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0<br>> Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions:
<br>><br>><br>><br>> 85 audio & 196 video codecs<br>> Setting up LIRC support...<br>> mplayer: could not connect to socket<br>> mplayer: No such file or directory<br>> Failed to open LIRC support.
<br>> You will not be able to use your remote control.<br>> Playing /dev/video1.<br>> Cache fill: 18.75% (1572864 bytes) MPEG-PS file format detected.<br>> VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 9600.0
kbps (1200.0<br>> kbyte/s)<br>> ==========================================================================<br>> Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3<br>> AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000->192000)
<br>> Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm:mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)<br>> ==========================================================================<br>> vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!<br>> vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!
<br>> VO XOverlay need a subdriver<br>> [gl] Using 4 as slice height (0 means image height).<br>> vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!<br>> vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!<br>> SDL: Initializing of SDL failed: No available video device.
<br>> ==========================================================================<br>> Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough<br>> VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
<br>> VDec: using Mpeg PES as output csp (no 0)<br>> Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.<br>> VO: [vesa] 720x480 => 720x540 Mpeg PES<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Brian<br>><br>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
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