From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 09:18:27 2003 Return-Path: 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 0C4FF37B404 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:18:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from faui40.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (faui40-smtp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.34.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D11543F75 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:18:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eckert@faui40p.informatik.uni-erlangen.de) Received: from faui40p.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (faui40p.informatik.uni-erlangen.de [131.188.34.77]) id SAA17386; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:18:24 +0200 (MEST) Received: (from eckert@localhost) by faui40p.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (8.9.3/8.1.6-FAU) id SAA21438; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:18:16 +0200 (MEST) From: Toerless Eckert Message-Id: <200304141618.SAA21438@faui40p.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> In-Reply-To: <3E9AD81C.3030302@altosusers.com> from Lukasz Ciazynski at "Apr 14, 2003 9:47:40 am" To: lciazyns@altosusers.com (Lukasz Ciazynski) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:18:16 +0200 (MEST) Organisation: CSD IMMD IV, University of Erlangen, Germany X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL42 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: eckert@i4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TV output options ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:18:27 -0000 > Any nvidia running freebsd nvidia driver should work just fine. I > haven't tried on mine yet, but nvidia's faq page claims it works:-) Here > is a link to unofficial nvidia tvout info: > http://www.khensu.org/unlocked/tvout.html > It's for X running on Linux but the config is the same. I've got the > twinview to two crt screens running, and it's awesome. Ok, great, i'll take a look into it. I have a few related questions: a) Any recommendations for an nvidia card with a high quality analog signal (eg: good external RAMDAC) ? I've my system connected through long VGA cables to a KVM, and thats the real litmus test for video signal quality - as: my one pc with an intel815 on-board VGA extremely sucks on it (shadows) even though you wouldn't see a problem with a short VGA cable, and the Matrox G450 i have is still extremely sharp with no shadows. (Likewise the video signal from my old died creator on ultra1 was much better than the quite fuzzy video signal from the el-cheapo ultra5 onboard vga). b) Under windows the Matrox has this nice DVD mode, by which the second (video) display will show in fullscreen the full resolution of a window from the first display, even if this window is only in smaller resolution there (eg: i think the drivers write the full resolution video signal into the second display and then hardware is used to have an arbitrarily sized representation of this in a window on the first display). That's about the functionality i'm after, but i could not figured out wether this would be supported at all by the Xwindows infrastructure and/or applications like mplayer. I could live without the video preview window on the first display, but it's important to have a video signal on the second display but still a higher resolution (full desktop, eg: 1280x1024) on the first one. Is this possible ? Cheers Toerless