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How do I redirect the video signal to my tv connected my grpahics card. The nvidia driver doesn't provide a control pannel to switch between monitor and TV set. I would like to be able to watch movies on my tv using the TV out on my card. It's an Nvidia 6600 using the athlon 64bit driver (Version: 1.0-7676) from nvidia. I am using debian sarge with 2.6.8-11 64bit kernel.
The documentation (usually installed in /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README.txt), specifies the configuration changes needed (it's not trivial). In addition, it seems that dpms functionality is lost when TV out is enabled, and text mode consoles (ctrl-alt-f1 for example) are frequently unusable. The Nvidia Linux support website is a good place to get sample configurations and help tweaking specific cards.
I think it will be best that the image on monitor is mirrored onto the tv because my TV isn't particularly high res so reading off it at a distance can be a little difficult. Prefer my high res monitor/ I only use the TV so i get a bigger picture when watching movies and perhaps when playing games as well.
Also does it matter am running Free86 not xorg . If yes then am soo sorry I didn't know it makes a difference. Because they both refered to as x server hence i thought they were the same
Last edited by linuxmandrake; 10-16-2005 at 03:29 PM.
I think you're confusing yourself. The TV is low res, the monitor is high res. If you mirror, you will have to go to the lowest common resolution (your TV), so your monitor will look like crap.
With the two head setup, if the image on the TV is too hard to read, then just go to the monitor and launch onto the TV:
DISPLAY=:0.1 mplayer somefile.avi
or
mplayer -display :0.1 somefile.avi
Last edited by macemoneta; 10-16-2005 at 05:41 PM.
Oh rite. Windows it's different I mirrored the screen onto my tv without changing anything on my monitor. I disable to save power but I could have the exact same image on nboth screeens and still have a high res monitor.
Last edited by linuxmandrake; 10-17-2005 at 04:57 AM.
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