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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2006 00:04:49 -0300 (ADT)
From:      User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org>
To:        Anish Mistry <mistry.7@osu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: s-video out of video card ...
Message-ID:  <20060707000428.I1171@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <200607060030.24868.mistry.7@osu.edu>
References:  <20060706004549.W1171@ganymede.hub.org> <200607060030.24868.mistry.7@osu.edu>

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Sweet, thanks ... it is an nVidia card, and the instructions appear to be 
quite clear ... now to try it :)

Thanks ...

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 23:47, User Freebsd wrote:
>> I want to use one of my freebsd boxes to play downloads onto my tv
>> ... specifically, Dr. Who episodes ... I have an s-video on the
>> back of my tv, and there is one on my video card ...
>>
>> is it as simple as connecting the two, or is there something I have
>> to do to tell the FreeBSD box to play out the s-video?
> What video card are you using?  If it's an nvidia card read the
> documentation that comes with the driver, as it is all explained
> there.  But most likely you'll need to add some stuff to your
> xorg.conf.  If it's an ATI google for the relevant changes you need
> to make to your xorg.conf.
> -- 
> Anish Mistry
>

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