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thom_raindog

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 175

TV Out

Morning,

I want to activate my nvidia cards tv out.
Back right after I installed arch I gave it a quick test and it worked like a charm. THAT was however was when I had JUST xf86-video-nouveau installed and NO xorg.
Since then I had to switch to nvidia as a driver (needed to install WoW for my wife) and had to apply an xorg.conf (because nvidia will otherwise use sync frequencies out of range for my poor old monitor.

Now, as much as I had hoped it would, nvidia / xorg will NOT just automatically add my TV using HAL, too bad.
So I have to manually do this. I have done this before, there is a good enough looking article in the wiki, I supposed I can pull that off. But, just once I would like to ask:
Is there an easy way to do all this, something automatical? Can I get HAL to cooperate on this while still having an xorg.conf?

OR: How the hell can I stop HAL from setting the freq out of range but that would be a different topic, just like "when will nouveau support 3D for WoW"

thom_raindog

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 175

Re: TV Out

ACTUALLY:

(--) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 7600 GT at PCI:4:0:0:
(--) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     PHILIPS 107B (CRT-1)
(--) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0)
(--) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): PHILIPS 107B (CRT-1): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA TV Encoder (TV-0): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): TV encoder: NVIDIA
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-1
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     "1024x768"
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     "800x600"
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1024 x 768
(--) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (81, 81); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
(--) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     option
(==) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.
(--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; the daemon
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     may not be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     configuration option may not be set correctly.  When the
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     ACPI event daemon is available, the NVIDIA X driver will
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     try to use it to receive ACPI event notifications.  For
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     details, please see the "ConnectToAcpid" and
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in Appendix B: X
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0):     Config Options in the README.
(II) Jun 10 06:41:25 NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1024x768"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX

Does that look like the TV was indeed found to anyone else? Why is the screen black then? Back in the days of using nouveau it would automatically show a copy of the monitor screen, and I managed to set it to "left of" with no hassle through KDEs settings.

thom_raindog

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 175

Re: TV Out

I got it to be where the TV will show at least something, but only black and white and WAY too big in resolution.
This despite PAL-B as an option and the resolution set to 768x600 (ish, dont remember) via nvidia-settings.

Any more hints?

thom_raindog

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 175

Re: TV Out

C'mon guys, the Soccer WC is running and I am watching the games on my 10'' Netbook

thom_raindog

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Registered: 2008-04-29

Posts: 175

Re: TV Out

C'mon guys.. I can not watch the soccer world championship on my little sucky PC monitor!

rransom

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Registered: 2010-04-26

Posts: 92

Re: TV Out

Have you tried xrandr?