[mythtv-users] xorg file for nvidia TV-Out
Chris Rouch
chris.rouch at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 14:06:09 UTC 2005
On 4/11/05, Kees van Bemmel <keesvanbemmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Too bad that those only have one monitor attached. I've been looking
> for a decent working configuration with a vga monitor AND a tv monitor
> attached at the same time.
>
> Which brings me to another question:
> Would it be possible to have those 2 monitors output different
> resolutions at the same time?
In my experience, yes, but...
I have my monitor running at 1152x864 and the TV at 1024x768. The TV
out won't go any higher than that. I ran into the following problems
with this:
* mplayer when run from mythtv thinks full screen is 1152x864, so on
the TV the bottom right part of the picture is missing. There's a
mythtv setup screen which shows how mplayer is called, so this can be
fixed by supplying -geometry arguments
* similarly mythtv itself has to be set to 1024x768.
* xscreensaver thinks the screen is only 1024x768, so there is a border.
* firefox won't save itself at a size greater than 1024x768.
There may be workarounds for these, but I haven't found them yet. The
relevant part of xorg.conf looks like this.
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)"
Option "NoLogo" "on"
Option "TwinView"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
Option "MetaModes" "1152x864, 1024x768; 1024x768, 1024x768;
800x600, 800x600; 640x480, 640x480"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, TV"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-G"
Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Regards,
Chris
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