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[edit] Merge

Not only the adjusting part (see below) would fit into the howto article. Why should we have ATI descriptions there and a separate article for Nvidia?? --Kraymer 08:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adjusting

This listing is also available in TV-Out#TV_standards, could this be merged somehow? --Kraymer 08:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NVidia TV-Out Doesn't Work with >=x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.9* Series

With previous nvidia-drivers-1.0.8* series, TV-Out worked. However, the more recent nvidia-drivers-1.0.9* series TV-Out fails. (*Note: >=nvidia-drivers-1.0.9746-r1 are not allowed to work with these older cards, but earlier nvidia-drivers-1.0.9* series are allowed to work with this card. Just guessing here, I think NVidia implemented new features breaking TV-Out with these older cards and didn't catch this breakage until later nvidia-drivers-1.0.9* series.)

Finding the NVidia Forums difficult to navigate, this has been a bug I thought would be eventually fixed. Hopefully this post will aid others after I spent several days finding this bug last year, but have yet to see anything similar like this posted anywhere.

To further debug, I have tried using the HOWTO Separate x-screens on Monitor and TV configuration and also tried using TwinView.

Here's a clipping of my xorg.log

(--) NVIDIA(0):     Philips 7104 TV Encoder (TV-0)
(--) NVIDIA(0): Philips 7104 TV Encoder (TV-0): 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(0): TV encoder: Philips 7104
(--) NVIDIA(1):     Philips 7104 TV Encoder (TV-0)
(--) NVIDIA(1): Philips 7104 TV Encoder (TV-0): 165.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
(--) NVIDIA(1): TV encoder: Philips 7104

(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
(EE) NVIDIA(0): The requested configuration of display devices is not
(EE) NVIDIA(0):     supported in the hardware.

Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0

(II) Screen 0 shares mem & io resources
(II) Screen 1 shares mem & io resources

NVidia Card Version (lspci):

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])      
        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8700

--Roger 06:37, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

I have temporarily resolved this by masking the entire nvidia-drivers-1.0.9* series. I now have installed the following paired packages: media-video/nvidia-settings-1.0.20051122-r3 x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776-r1 --Roger 06:53, 21 August 2007 (UTC)