Hi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:59 PM, John Finlay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:finlay@moeraki.com">finlay@moeraki.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Tom Lichti wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Bill Williamson <<a href="mailto:bill@bbqninja.com">bill@bbqninja.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 9:07 AM, John Finlay <<a href="mailto:finlay@moeraki.com">finlay@moeraki.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> I have an old Sony TV that has component inputs that I tried to connect<br>
>>> to a FE using a Nividia component out dongle. The Nvidia graphics is an<br>
>>> integrated MB 7050 out thru a svideo connector. The svideo works fine<br>
>>> but I wanted to see if I could get a better picture using the component<br>
>>> out. The problem is that I get a good component out picture but the blue<br>
>>> is missing from the output. I followed the mythtv guide for component<br>
>>> out but it mostly seems aimed at HDTVs with component in. Googling<br>
>>> hasn't turned up any references to anyone using Nviidia component out to<br>
>>> a SDTV but I also didn't find anything that said it won't work.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Has anyone tried this and had success? Or am I just trying the impossible?<br>
>>><br>
>> Mine just plain worked. Did the dongle come with your card? Does your mobo<br>
>> actually support component?<br>
>><br>
>> Is your TV RGB or ypbpr?<br>
>><br>
><br>
> You have to select 'HD480i" as the TV out standard in the xorg.conf<br>
> file. Took awhile to figure that one out...<br>
><br>
</div>Did that which made the green and red work. If I use NTSC-M I just get<br>
the red working - same as if I specify svideo for the TVOutFormat.<br>
<br>
Since you (and the OP) got this to work it seems likely that my MB<br>
doesn't support component out.<br>
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John<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>When I tried getting this to work on my 7600 board (which came with the
dongle) I noticed that the Ubuntu splash screen was in full color
during startup, but after the nvidia driver loaded (I assume),
everything was a bluish/purple hue. I never got it working right (after several hours of trying), but
the splashscreen seemed to indicate to me that my hardware setup was
capable, just needed to tweak driver settings somewhere. I'm quite the
noob, so take my observation with a grain of salt, but maybe check your
splashscreen for another data point?<br>
<br>
I ended up insatlling mythbuntu on another machine with only the dongle
plugged in and everything just worked, so I gave up and dedicated Mr.
Blue Hue to backend duty. On the blue hue setup I tried to switch to
component after running dual head s-vid+analog monitor. Might be worth
trying a mythbuntu install with just the dongle plugged in to see if
that gets things working.<br>
<br>
BTW, I'm quite pleased with the picture quality on my SD TV using 480i
component. It's worth it to put in a little more time to try to get it
working right! The colors really pop and the image is very stable.<br>