Re: s-video out, Dell nvidia laptop?

[Don Hayward <don@pomobuli.net>]

Thanks Evan,

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Evan wrote:

> Can we have more details as to what you've already done? Has your
> problem produced any error messages?
>
> On 2/8/07, Don Hayward <don@pomobuli.net> wrote:
> > I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop with Geforce4 440 Go graphics.  I
> > need instruction for getting the s-video port to work.  I've googled a
> > lot and tried some suggestions found there, but they haven't worked
> > and I haven't a clear idea of what's needed.

I guess I was vague because the problem was so simple.  I continued to
google -- looking for the magic keywords, and found a relevant xorg.conf on 
this page:

 http://gentoo-wiki.com/TV-Out_with_GeForce

from which I exerpted this bit of the "Device" section:

# TV Out Setup
        Option      "TVStandard" "NTSC"
        Option      "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
        Option      "TVOverScan" "0.6"
        Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"

which gave me what I needed.  I had to use the "nvidia" driver.

Thanks again.

Don

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