My laptop took a little nosedive into the floor today and I have a paper due tomorrow so I immediately freaked out panicking. After a good 15 minutes of that I realized I could just hitch my tower (which I've been using as a server) up to my TV and type away in blissful peace. This is where all my problems begin.
I'm typing this on my laptop but I'm doing it quick because it doesn't stay on for more than 10 minutes at a time before it begins to overheat. I have no monitor that I can use, only the TV. I was running ubuntu-server on the tower which I have since upgraded to ubuntu-desktop via ssh. The tower used to be my main computer so it has an nvidia geforce 5200 (PCI) in it. The card has an svideo out in it and my tv has an svideo in!
I'm certain that in the bios it is *not* set to do tv out by default, so I was hoping that I might be able to do it through x. I have a couple questions before I explode out of frustration trying to get this to work.
Is it even possible to setup a tv out set up without a first monitor? I mean it must after all how else do the media center computers work right?
How do I go about doing this? I've tried looking about but nothing is working. :/
Here is what I got in my xorg.conf
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
# InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
# InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# path to defoma fonts
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "bitmap"
Load "ddc"
Load "extmod"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "int10"
Load "type1"
Load "vbe"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
# Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
HorizSync 28.0 - 64.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 60.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce 5200"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT,TV"
Option "TwinView" "true"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
Option "MetaModes" "1024x768,1024x768;800x600,800x600;640x480,640x480; 512x384,512x384"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "NVIDIA GeForce 5200"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x854" "1280x800" "1280x768" "1200x800" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Any help at all is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Kyle
