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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:28:34 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xfree and TV question
Message-ID:  <20020729152834.GA51403@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020729150607.34275.qmail@web40102.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20020729150607.34275.qmail@web40102.mail.yahoo.com>

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In the last episode (Jul 30), Paul Jansen said:
> I've seached all over the place for info on this but haven't been
> able to find anything.
> 
> I have a SIS 6326 PCI card that has TV-out on it.  It doesn't require
> any special drivers to use the TV out function - this is available at
> boot up provided a signal to the TV is detected.
> 
> I pulled my regular videa card out and put the SiS 6326 in and booted
> in to windows.  It was set to 640x480 by 256 colours.  Windows came
> up fine on the TV and it asked for a driver disk for the new card it
> had found.  Happy with that I rebooted into FreeBSD and made a copy
> of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file. I've tried all sorts of settings but
> I cannot get a usable display on the TV.  What I do get is black and
> white lines flickering quite fast.

You probably have to make sure your refresh rate in X is set to
something your TV can use (50Hz is the PAL refresh rate, I think?) .
You'll have to edit the "Monitor" section of the XF86Config.  Try
HorizSync 30-50, VertRefresh 50.  Note that this will make for very
flickery viewing on your PC monitor, if it even syncs at all.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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