Date: 27 Nov 2002 14:19:01 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: nvidia tv-out Message-ID: <1038368940.9582.54.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20021127032509.GA77914@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> References: <20021121164650.421c9b9a.martin@gumucio.com> <86fztpn5zk.fsf@number6.magda.ca> <3DE2359D.8000101@mitre.org> <20021127032509.GA77914@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
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On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:55, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2002-Nov-25 09:37:17 -0500, Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> wrote: > >I got TV-out working on my GeForce 4 using the following config: > > > >Option "TwinView" > >Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50" > >Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60" > > > >Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone" > > > >in Section "Screen" > > The horizontal sync value looks dodgy. A standard NTSC TV set > uses 60Hz vertical and 15.750kHz horizontal with 2:1 interlace > (50Hz and 15.625KHz for PAL). Trying to run an ordinary TV > at 30-50kHz horizontal stands a high risk of destroying the > horizontal output transformer and associated components. Assuming that the cards TV out driver will even bother looking at that value.. The card probably totally ignores the refresh rate for TV out. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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