From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 11:57:36 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 92A9637B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:57:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow058o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A940543E6E for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:57:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from xtalsinger@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from pcow058m.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:57:31 +0100 Received: from localhost (unverified [62.31.161.19]) by pcow058m.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with SMTP id ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 19:57:24 +0100 From: Dave To: John Bleichert Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xfree and TV question Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 19:57:07 +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 Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:44:08 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: >In the XF86Config file for the external monitor or TV make sure that > ># Option "externDisp" > >in the "Device" section is uncommented. I can't remember the details, this >was quite a while (and several XF86Configs) ago. Can you at least get a >terminal on the television and try to startx from there? Looks like I'll have to swap the video cards over then. So far, the only (semi) confirmed sightings/experience of X on a TV seems to be with an ATI card. Thanks for the pointers. Dave -- Sig abducted by aliens To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message