Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:59:10 -0800 (PST) From: Dominic Caffey <dcaffey_fl@yahoo.com> To: Newbies FreeBSD <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: X.org config question - SVGA output to HDTV - no complaints in log but no function either... Message-ID: <20050117205910.71279.qmail@web41523.mail.yahoo.com>
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Dear FreeBSD-Newbies, Did a little digging at the Nvidia website and found the following: http://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-6113.html. Maybe it will be useful to someone else as well. Dom --- Dominic Caffey <dcaffey_fl@yahoo.com> wrote: > Dear FreeBSD-Newbies, > > I'm trying to get my Nvidia GeForce4 MX > 4000 > based video card to work with X in outputting > to > my HDTV. I can run the configurator fine and > the > confugator and X.org logs mentioned @ > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > show no problems but when I try to start X I > don't get any output. Any suggestions/ideas. > > Output to the HDTV in text mode works fine and > it > works in graphical mode with MS-Win98 but I > haven't had any luck with graphical output to > the > HDTV with X using X.org. > > Do you think I'd have an easier time getting > this > to work with XFree86 or am I likely to have the > same issues as with Xorg? > > The HDTV is a 51" diag, 4/3 aspect ratio Apex > model GBHD5109. > > I'd really like to get this working with X via > either Xorg or XFree86 because it's fun to show > off FreeBSD in grand style. > > I'm using the Intel build of v 5.3 Release. > Thanks in advance for any help that comes my > way. > > Dom > > > ===== > +------------------------------ > | Dominic Caffey > | Email: dcaffey_fl@yahoo.com > +------------------------------ > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? > http://my.yahoo.com > ===== +------------------------------ | Dominic Caffey | Email: dcaffey_fl@yahoo.com +------------------------------ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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