<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 18, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Travis N wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"><PRE><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt">I am new to linux & myth, but at one point successfully had both functioning. In my blind attempts to get the S-video out hooked up to my TV, I changed my X config file to force S-video out. This was successful, but the HorizSync setting seems to be set wrong, as the output image seems to be smeared across/around the screen horizontally. Now when I plug my monitor into the VGA connection, it will no longer output to the monitor and I cannot see what is on the TV in order to log in and modify the config file in KDE.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt">I am guessing that I have to prevent X from booting, and edit this file from outside of KDE somehow, but have no idea of how to do it (s-video works great until X loads).. basic step-by-step instructions would be greatly appreciated! <O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE><FONT size="2" face="Courier New"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt">Also, if someone could direct me to the appropriate config settings (HorizSync) for a run-of-the-mill 27” RCA TV (NTSC), that would also be greatly appreciated.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></PRE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hooo Boy. It should be illegal to allow Unix systems to boot directly into a graphical environment, or at least it shouldn't be the default behavior as it is with a lot of distros.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I don't know how or what distro you installed but here are some options:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If you can log into the machine remotely via ssh you could edit the file.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You could press CTRL-ALT-F2, which should get you into a virtual text terminal, and you can edit whatever you want.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Do you want to output just to the TV, or to a TV and a normal computer display? If the latter, it depends on what X server and driver you are using, nVidia has "TwinView", which is probably what you want. The README that comes with the nVidia driver explains how to set this up.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You might also want to be sure that both your display devices are connected at boot, again this depends somewhat on your setup.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Also, to prevent booting into a graphical environment, change the line in your /etc/inittab file that says "id:<x>:initdefault:" so that <x> is 3 and not whatever it is. I don't know how this might interact with whatever distro you are using though. Normally you'll just have to type "startx"to get into your graphical world.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But it's easy enough to just switch to a terminal after X starts I guess.</DIV></BODY></HTML>