[PLUG] Displaying in TV with GeForce MX 5200
Alan
alan at clueserver.org
Fri Jan 23 19:04:02 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 15:15, Vincent Yau wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I got a new GeForce MX 5200 card with TV-out.
> I have installed in onto my box running RH 9. When
> playing movies with xine on my 32" TV, I can see the top and left border of
> the picture
> frame. I tried to adjust the aspect ratio but could not get the picture to
> align
> so that the top and left border does not show up.
> Is there anything I can do so that picture aligns with my TV screen?
Are you using a VGA cable or the S-Video out on the back of the card?
Are you using the commercial nVIDIA driver?
> Also, while Linux is booting up, all the text before
> X-window starts flickers as if the vertical refresh rate is messed up.
> As soon as X starts, everything is fine because I have modified
> XF86Config to set the vertical refresh as 60 Mhz.
> Is there a place I can set that for text-mode? Or is it a different
> problem altogether?
Are you booting in frame buffer mode or using standard text?
I have the TV-out working correctly on my system. It requires some odd
hacking to get it to work, but it is possible.
>
> thanks
>
> --Vincent
>
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