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

[Jurgen Kramer]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 13:57 -0500, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> This should be noted in the How-To!
> 
> Geoff
> 
> 
> 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.
> >

If you really only want the modeline parameters use xvidtune, it will
give you the exact timing.

Jurgen