Hi

I've been trying find a howto of anykind, to get tv-out working on my nv 6600GT card.
My distro is SuSe 10.0 eval x86_64 with KDE as window manager.
I've downloaded the drivers from Nvidia:s site and tried to follow the instructions.
I got the driver installed (i think) and 3D support on, but have no idea, how to enable/setup the tv-out.

'lspci | grep VGA' gives me: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2)

i think i should make some changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf , but don't know exactly what.
I'm in Finland, so i think the mode should be PAL-B for the tv.(?)

Any suggestions.
This is pretty much the last thing i need working in linux and i'll be ready to switch to Linux completely.

Thank you in advance.

/Beekley

I'm not sure which of the 64 bit driver packages you installed. I found that the AMD_64 documentation at nvidia.com doesn't mention the tv-out. The IA64 documentation does talk about the tv-out supported chips. It doesn't look like the 6600 is included.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Li....0-5336/README

You could look further at the nvidia.com driver documentation. I think that you are not going to be happy with the results.

You really have to do a lot of research before purchasing hardware to run on a Linux system. Make sure that the hardware and software will do everything that you want to do before you purchase anything. This is particularly true of high performance or specialty components or components that use their own proprietary drivers.

Well, when i installed SuSe, during the installation there was picture on my TV, but it was probably giving out the same resolution as the screen in KDE and looked 'overlaced' and scrambled.

Also during boot the TV screen shows picture just ok, until the graphical login.

nvtv gives me 'No supported video card found.'

So any idea, what could be happening here?

Cheers

Now i think i got somewhere.

I added the following lines to /etc/X11/xorg.conf :

Section "Device"
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Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT"

and when i rebooted, the picture went to my TV and everything looked ok, even tried a movie and everything is ok, except... there's no picture on my monitor anymore!!

So that probably means that i will be able to get them working, but now i need some option to get them working together.

Thanks

Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT TV"

Well after "CRT TV" it only leaves monitor on, TV goes blank.

Maybe i should post my xorg.conf i might be missing something.

here goes:

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 (root@linux) Sat Apr 8 21:36:06 EEST 2006

# /.../
# SaX generated X11 config file
# Created on: 2006-04-09T13:42:23+0300.
#
# Version: 7.1
# Contact: Marcus Schaefer <sax@suse.de>, 2002
#
# Automatically generated by [ISaX] (7.1)
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!
#

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout[all]"
Screen "Screen[0]" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard[0]" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse[1]" "CorePointer"
Option "Clone" "off"
Option "Xinerama" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/PEX"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/latin7/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/baekmuk:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/japanese:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/truetype"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/uni:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ucs/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/100dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/hellas/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/sgi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/xtest"
FontPath "/opt/kde3/share/fonts"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "v4l"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard[0]"
Driver "kbd"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "Chicony Electronics USB Wireless HID Receiver"
Option "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Modes"
Identifier "Modes[0]"
ModeLine "1280x1024" 105.2 1280 1360 1496 1712 1024 1025 1028 1059
ModeLine "1280x960" 116.2 1280 1360 1496 1712 960 961 964 998
ModeLine "1280x960" 97.7 1280 1352 1488 1696 960 961 964 993
ModeLine "1280x800" 111.8 1280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 837
ModeLine "1280x800" 96.0 1280 1352 1488 1696 800 801 804 832
ModeLine "1280x800" 80.6 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 827
ModeLine "1152x864" 93.9 1152 1224 1344 1536 864 865 868 899
ModeLine "1152x864" 78.8 1152 1216 1336 1520 864 865 868 894
ModeLine "1280x768" 107.2 1280 1360 1496 1712 768 769 772 803
ModeLine "1280x768" 92.2 1280 1352 1488 1696 768 769 772 799
ModeLine "1280x768" 77.4 1280 1344 1480 1680 768 769 772 794
ModeLine "1024x768" 86.2 1024 1088 1200 1376 768 769 772 803
ModeLine "1024x768" 73.9 1024 1080 1192 1360 768 769 772 799
ModeLine "1024x768" 61.9 1024 1080 1184 1344 768 769 772 794
ModeLine "800x600" 74.0 800 848 936 1072 600 601 604 639
ModeLine "800x600" 66.7 800 848 936 1072 600 601 604 635
ModeLine "800x600" 58.7 800 840 928 1056 600 601 604 632
ModeLine "800x600" 51.7 800 840 928 1056 600 601 604 628
ModeLine "800x600" 44.1 800 840 920 1040 600 601 604 624
ModeLine "800x600" 36.9 800 832 912 1024 600 601 604 621
ModeLine "768x576" 67.8 768 816 896 1024 576 577 580 613
ModeLine "768x576" 61.2 768 816 896 1024 576 577 580 610
ModeLine "768x576" 53.8 768 808 888 1008 576 577 580 606
ModeLine "768x576" 47.4 768 808 888 1008 576 577 580 603
ModeLine "768x576" 40.4 768 800 880 992 576 577 580 599
ModeLine "768x576" 33.7 768 792 872 976 576 577 580 596
ModeLine "640x480" 57.2 640 680 752 864 480 481 484 517
ModeLine "640x480" 51.4 640 680 744 848 480 481 484 514
ModeLine "640x480" 46.8 640 680 744 848 480 481 484 511
ModeLine "640x480" 42.2 640 680 744 848 480 481 484 508
ModeLine "640x480" 37.0 640 672 736 832 480 481 484 505
ModeLine "640x480" 32.6 640 672 736 832 480 481 484 503
ModeLine "640x480" 27.7 640 664 728 816 480 481 484 500
ModeLine "640x480" 23.1 640 656 720 800 480 481 484 497
ModeLine "1024x768" 65.0 1024 1048 1184 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync -vsync
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor[0]"
VendorName "IIYAMA"
ModelName "VISION MASTER 1403 (LS704UT)"
UseModes "Modes[0]"
DisplaySize 300 230
HorizSync 28.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0
EndSection

Section "Device"

#Option "NvAGP" "0"
#Option "NvAGP" "3"
#Option "NvAGP" "1"
#TV Out
Identifier "Device[0]"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVidia"
BoardName "GeForce 6600 GT"
#tvout lisatty
# Option "TwinView" "on"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT TV"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "True"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen[0]"
Device "Device[0]"
Monitor "Monitor[0]"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "ShadowFB" "on"
#Option "NvAGP" "2"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option "TVOverScan" "0.6"
# Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV" #add if having problem
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1152x864" "1280x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "768x576" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Anyone?

This problem is making me nuts here.