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

From: Dominic Caffey (dcaffey_fl_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/17/05

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    Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:59:10 -0800 (PST)
To: Newbies FreeBSD <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>

    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@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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