On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Adam Hardy wrote:
spent the last 24 hours trying to get on top of this but reached the limit of
my resources now and seem to have hit most of the relevant googleable info
out there without getting past the current impasse.
I've got a hot nvidia 7950GT GPU which is supported by nvidia's latest driver
1.0-9755. It's running with a TV in my living room.
So far I've got a black-and-white picture, no colour, and the picture's too
big for the screen, so I lose the top and bottom edges.
I suspect the no-colour problem may be due to the cabling - I'm using an
SVIDEO to scart cable, and I've seen two messages on the web (albeit from the
USA) saying it's a cable issue. Could it be something else? I've already been
to the store twice for these cables!
As for the screen size, I think I've got the xorg.conf set up as perfect as
it can be (see end) and I should use nvtv to configure it now.
Problem is, nvtv says
isengard:~# nvtv
Fatal: No supported video card found.
isengard:~# nvtv -P
Fatal: Either you are not root, or no NVidia card found.
Also it concerns me that lspci doesn't recognise my nvidia model:
isengard:~# lspci |grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0295
(rev a1)
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "telly"
HorizSync 30.0 - 65.0
VertRefresh 60.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia 7950GT"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "telly"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-I" # for the UK
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
EndSection
The setup is quite different, but this "Device" works for me.
Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
# TV Out Setup
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option "TVOverScan" "0.6"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
EndSection
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