Fx 5200 Svideo out to Vizo 42" HDTV svideo in. Running Centos 5.5 32bit with Gnome
 

Hello I have a nvidia GeForce FX 5200 Video Card, I am running Centos 5.5 32Bit on a Dell Pentium 4.
I have a dell 15" lcd mointor hooked up to the 1 of the 2 vga output of the vid card.

I have been trying to get Video out in Gnome working on my Vizo 42 HDTV with a Svideo cable from the FX 5200 vid card to the Svideo on the vizo HDTV tv but I do not seem to be able to get it working correct.

I followed the guide on centos wiki here:

http://wiki.centos.o...Nvidia_Graphics

I installed:

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.14-pkg1.run

here is the output of lspci -v


00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0110
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [e4] Vendor Specific Information
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 [Brookdale] Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=64
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fc000000-fdffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 12)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 Controller (rev 12) (prog-if 80 [Master])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0110
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]

00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0110
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 169
I/O ports at ff80 [size=32]

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus Controller (rev 12)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0110
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 185
I/O ports at dcd0 [size=16]

00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB Controller #1 (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0110
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
I/O ports at ff60 [size=32]

02:07.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3
Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Expansion ROM at 80000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Belkin F5D5000 PCI Card/Desktop Network PCI Card
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 185
I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
Memory at fdeffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at fd000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

02:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
Subsystem: Creative Labs CT4780 SBLive! Value
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193
I/O ports at e8e0 [size=32]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

02:09.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 07)
Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64
I/O ports at e8d8 [size=8]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

When the computer boots up the video is fine like booting in run level 3. but in run level 5 when it trys to start X.
It fails to start X.
I have to delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf
and then I can startx
then I can use gnome on my Dell Lcd Computer sceen but the Vizo HDTV has all different color lines and can not see anything at all.
I think I need help with my xorg.conf?
unless this video card is to old?

I have tryed nvidia-settings and also system-config-display
to make a xorg.conf but neither seem to be helpfull.
And then rebooting into run level 5 with the same results I have to delete my xorg.conf and then I can start X.

suggestions or ideas would be great.
Thank You.
Harley-D

I previously had an Nvidia FX5200, I used the legacy driver version 173.xx series. It looks like you are using the 71.xx series (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-71.86.14-pkg1.run).

Perhaps try again with the proper driver.

Also, I think that link is incomplete or not properly tested.