As far as I know, the only way to get NVIDIA cards to work with TV-out is to use NVIDIA's binary drivers. They stopped supporting GeForce 256 recently, so you'd have to get older versions of the binary drivers. Mark. On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, jim male wrote: > Hello mailing list! I have an old nVidia GeForce 256 with an Svideo port and > an NTSC TV that I'd like to pair. I've heard that an improperly configured X > server can make a TV smoke/catch on fire/explode/die. I don't know if there > is any truth in this, but I'd rather as the experts than end up in the > hospitol. > > The TV is a Toshiba 27" TV (NTSC) Model Number 27A32. > The lspci line for my GeForce 256 is "0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible > controller: nVidia Corporation NV10 [GeForce 256 SDR] (rev 10)" > > my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file can be found at > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=2334412, as I think > it would be impolite to put something that long into a mailing list. > > Thanks to anyone who can help this n00b. > > -Jim > > PS. CC to j99male22list0004@xxxxxxxxx (removing all of the numbers) > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
