From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 16:39:26 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 397EE37B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:39:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C14B43E65 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:39:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from xtalsinger@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:39:20 +0100 Received: from localhost (unverified [62.31.161.19]) by pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with SMTP id for ; Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:39:20 +0100 From: Dave To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xfree and TV question Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2002 00:39:06 +0100 Reply-To: xtalsinger@blueyonder.co.uk Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.91/32.564 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:55:53 -0500, you wrote: > 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. Ah HA!!! Light at the end of the tunnel :-) I tried getting the new "official" Linux nvidia drivers to work with FreeBSD - No luck. Looked into geting it to work with an ATI Mach64/TV-Out - No luck. I even installed RH Linux 7.3 (That's what the official NVidia driver is for) - Couldn't work out why it wouldn't install properly. I'll certainly have a go with the vesa driver now. Thinking about it, it "should" work. After all, the RH Linux 7.3 install was done in graphics mode - looked like 800x600 to me Half hour later The NVidia TNT2 failed miserably with the Vesa driver :-( The Mach64 works though :-) Thanks for the pointer Dave -- Sig abducted by aliens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message