[mythtv-users] Can you probe an nvidia card to get current modeline?

[Richard Bronosky]

Steven Adeff wrote:
> On 2/14/06, Richard Bronosky <mythtv at bronosky.com> wrote:
>   
>>  I'm assuming this doesn't work for VT[1-6] which is what I am really
>> curious about.  I still have no idea what mode or resolution VT[1-6] is
>> using, but after 6 months of playing around, it it the only thing that
>> causes my TV to kick into 1080i mode.
>>
>>  Ideas on how to get the mode or resolution of the terminal?
>>
>>  Steven Adeff wrote:
>>  On 2/14/06, Richard Bronosky <mythtv at bronosky.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  I would love to know what resolution (and other mode detail) my nvidia
>> card is putting out at a given point in time. My TV switches mode from
>> 1080i to 720p to 480p as I do different tasks. I'd like to be able to
>> see what the card is delivering to cause the TV to change modes.
>>
>> I tried reading
>> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86_40/1.0-2880/README.txt
>> which did
>> teach me about /proc/driver/nvidia/agp/* but those files don't contain
>> that kind of info.
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>>  run xrandr and you should get an output similar to:
>>  SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh
>> *0 1280 x 768 ( 452mm x 271mm ) *60
>>  1 1024 x 768 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>>  2 848 x 480 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>>  3 800 x 600 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>>  4 720 x 576 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>>  5 720 x 480 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>>  6 640 x 480 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>>  7 640 x 400 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>>  8 640 x 350 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>>  9 512 x 384 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>>  10 400 x 600 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>>  11 320 x 480 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>>  12 320 x 400 ( 452mm x 271mm ) 60
>> Current rotation - normal
>> Current reflection - none
>> Rotations possible - normal
>> Reflections possible - none
>>
>> which is my laptop, the *'d line is your current mode.
>>
>>     
>
> you want the resolution of your terminal or your video output to your
> TV for video?
>
> if your in a non X terminal and want to know what X is outputing as:
> xrandr -q -d :0.0
>
> --
> Steve
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Awesome!  it's also important to note for visitors to this thread:  You
must call any app that will use an x wimdow display as the user which
the x-window-manger is running.  Which for most of our cases will be
mythtv.  ( see: ps -auxww|grep x-win )  You will drive yourself crazy
trying this as root.

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