X.org config question - SVGA output to HDTV - no complaints in log but no function either...

[Dominic Caffey]

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 at 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
> 
> 
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