From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 12:56:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A29EE37B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:56:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.seton.org (mail.seton.org [207.193.126.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45B4343E65 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 12:56:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mgrooms@seton.org) Received: from aus-gwia.aus.dcnhs.org (aus-gwia.aus.dcnhs.org [10.20.10.211]) by mail.seton.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7A46D0061 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:56:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: from AUS_SETON-MTA by aus-gwia.aus.dcnhs.org with Novell_GroupWise; Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:56:01 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.1 Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:55:53 -0500 From: "Matthew Grooms" To: Subject: RE: xfree and TV question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I noticed a few people had been discussing the use of xfree86 w/video out. I had a bout with this a year or so ago and found a solution that may work for some of you. I have been using xf86 w/ my living room television for quite some time now. If you have a card that has > VESA 2.0 support, I would suggest giving the vesa driver a try. I have an NVidia card that refused to work with the tv out when the nv driver was used in XFree86. I ended up emailed the xfree86 nv driver maintainer and he stated that tv out is not / would not be a supported feature. Apparently, it is impossible to feed the card the proper timings for tv output using the nv driver. When the vesa driver is used and the vga is unplugged, the video card assumes that you want to output via the tv out connector at boot. ( yes you must reboot ) After that, the card translates standard timings into acceptable NTSC/PAL timing for your tv/monitor so there is no need for fancy modeline calculations. Just use some stanard timings for the mode you are shooting for. Although I have only tested this with an nvidia card I would not be surprised if other vesa/tvout cards would work the same way. Hope this helps someone. -Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message