On 10/5/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mark Linford</b> <<a href="mailto:mythtv@marklinford.com">mythtv@marklinford.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well, after following Jarod's Fedora guide (excellent, btw), I've gotten<br>a rudimentary MythTV box up and running. However, I'm now at the point<br>where I want to go from my monitor out to my TV/component outs, and I'm
<br>having a heck of a time with X trying to make it work. Here's my setup:<br><br>* Fedora Core 4<br>* Gigabyte 6200-based video card, w/component-out breakout box<br>* Latest (7676) nVidia drivers<br>* Dell 2405W monitor (hooked up to its component-inputs) for testing,
<br>though eventually I want to hook it up to my projector in my media room<br><br>First, I thought I'd cheat, see if anybody was already using this<br>configuration, and just copy their xorg.conf. Well, no such luck. So,
<br>per Jarod's advice I tried the PowerStrip route. Booting off of a<br>WindowsXP drive, I used PowerStrip to find settings for 720x480p and<br>tweeked the setttings until it looked decent (I'll worry about<br>perfection later). Here's the mode line that PowerStrip gave me:
<br><br>Linux modeline parameters:<br>"720x480" 26.625 720 752 824 896 480 481 484 497 -hsync -vsync<br><br>So, I edited my xorg.conf file with the following<br><br>Section "Monitor"<br> Identifier "Monitor0"
<br> VendorName "Some Vendor"<br> ModelName "HDTV"<br> HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9<br> VertRefresh 59.9 - 60.1<br> ModeLine "720x480" 26.625 720 752 824 896 480 481 484 497 -hsync
<br>-vsync<br>EndSection<br><br>Section "Screen"<br> Identifier "Screen0"<br> Device "Videocard0"<br> Monitor "Monitor0"<br> DefaultDepth 24<br> SubSection "Display"
<br> Depth 24<br> Modes "720x480"<br> EndSubSection<br> Option "TVStandard" "HD480p"<br> Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"<br>EndSection
<br><br>Now, at first, this failed completely, and X wouldn't even start. After<br>checking out my Xorg.0.log file, I saw that it didn't like the hsync<br>range of my 720x480 Mode. However, it did like the default 800x600
<br>mode.! So, just for fun, I changed<br><br>Modes "720x480"<br><br>to<br><br>Modes "800x600"<br><br>Now, I'm getting closer (I think). X will start without errors, but I<br>only get a blank screen. I can drop down to a console, and I get text
<br>via the component outputs, but when I switch back to X, just black.<br>Strangely, my monitor thinks it's getting a 480p signal, but I see<br>nothing ...<br><br><br>Is it possible this setup just won't work? Googling and searching
<br>various forums about my configuration just brought results stating that<br>my configuration (6200, component outputs) was possible, but nothing<br>from anyone who actually got it up and running!<br><br>My X configuration skills are suspect at best, so I'm really not sure
<br>how to even proceed from this point. I really want to get this<br>configuration up and running, though :) Any advice on where to go from<br>here would be appreciated.<br><br>Mark<br><br>_______________________________________________
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</a></blockquote><div><br>Hello,<br><br>Looking at the config it might be worth changing TVStandard to PAL or NTSC or whatever would be appropriate for your TV. Not sure tho...<br> </div>/drdaz<br></div><br>