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Dj_kourampies

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From: Greece

Registered: 2005-11-02

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Nvidia + Svideo TVout on old CRT TV

I ve been using arch linux for years for creating small servers with no gui with old machines.

Now I want to use a spare quite fast laptop I have for emulating MAME and other older systems that where meant to be played on a CRT screen. Since SVIDEO TV out on NT6.* doesnt even work and nvidia doesnt plan to fix it, and on tvout on Windows XP also doesnt work so well, I decided to try linux. Tried Ubuntu, and managed to make it work, with adding some lines to xorg.conf that exist also in this wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvi … eo_Tearing with success. But lets face it, I dont like ubuntu, theres no learning new things, theres no compiling, theres no messing up with stuff.

I ve managed to set up a desktop enviroment, lots of manual work had to be done, I think some more automated wizards should be added for the most common setups, but still, its extremely fast, compared to ubuntu. I noticed that xorg is on some new/different version, with split configuration files. How am I to make a configuration file for forced, SVIDEO tvout like the one here, used for the old xorg.conf? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvi … eo_Tearing

The ideal would be to route the emulator output on TV, and when no emulator runs just leave it blank, but i would settle for a simple image cloning

Last edited by Dj_kourampies (2010-08-06 11:22:52)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: Nvidia + Svideo TVout on old CRT TV

You can still use an xorg.conf and put that stuff from the wiki page in it. Or you use a dedicated file for nvidia configuration in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d , both will work.