NVIDIA, GEForce4, TV-OUT.

[Nakal]

On Sunday 29 June 2003 00:07, Joachim Dagerot wrote:

> Has anyone one been lucky trying to get the tv-out on a geForce4 card
> working with the nvidia card?

Yes.

> I'm running latest 5.1 of freeBSD and could need some samples from
> the X86Free config file on how to get the TV-out working.

I will paste the important sections here, but remember that I am using 
the "nvidia" driver and not the unaccelarated "nv" driver (because I 
like to play "Unreal Tournament") :)

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "DigitalVibrance"           # <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"                   # [<bool>]
        Option     "NoLogo" "True"              # [<bool>]
        Option     "Overlay" "True"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UBB"                       # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Stereo"                    # <i>
        #Option     "WindowFlip"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
        Option     "HWcursor" "True"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "NvAGP"                     # <i>
        #Option     "PixmapCacheLines"          # <i>
        Option     "IgnoreEDID" "Yes"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"                     # [<bool>]
        Option     "ConnectedMonitor" "Monitor,TV"      # <str>
        #Option     "ConnectedMonitors" "Monitor,TV"    # <str>
        Option     "TVStandard" "PAL-G"         # <str>
        Option     "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"       # <str>
        #Option     "NoRenderAccel"             # [<bool>]
        Option     "CursorShadow" "True"        # [<bool>]
        #Option     "CursorShadowAlpha"         # <i>
        #Option     "CursorShadowXOffset"       # <i>
        #Option     "CursorShadowYOffset"       # <i>
        Option     "UseEdidFreqs" "False"       # [<bool>]
        #Option     "FlatPanelProperties"       # <str>
        Option     "TwinView" "Yes"            # [<bool>]
        Option     "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone" # <str>
        Option     "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"     # <str>
        Option     "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"      # <str>
        Option     "MetaModes" "800x600,800x600;640x480,640x480" # <str>
        #Option     "UseInt10Module"            # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SwapReady"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo"    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoRenderExtension"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseClipIDs"                # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200]"
#        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

This should enable TV output for Germany, when using the S-Video cable. 
If you need TV settings from another coutries try googling for them 
(enter: "TVStandard TVOutFormat nvidia").

Martin