Re: [SLUG] video cards

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Thu May 14 2009 - 09:29:35 EDT


On Thu, 14 May 2009, Jonathan Brown wrote:

> I'm actually using the tv-out (s-video) successfully on a GeForce 6200
> right now w/Ubuntu 9.04.

I guess that's definitive then. Thanks. What do you use, the binary-only
driver from nvidia ("nvidia") or the open-source one ("nv") or what?

> Seems like it doesn't switch back and forth
> between monitor and tv though. If you want to switch you have to reboot.
> That's probably an option in xorg.conf that I haven't added though.

Yeah, something like you have to make them both active and set each to have
X not fail sf it's not connected. Never tried.

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Eben King <eben01@verizon.net>
> To: SLUG Mailing List <slug@nks.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:33:14 AM
> Subject: [SLUG] video cards
>
> I'm considering getting what Newegg calls an "XFX PVT44AWANG GeForce 6200"
> ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150107 ) for my
> DVR. How can I find out if there's an xorg driver for it that supports
> TV-out? I swear there used to be a "supported cards" list at xfree86.org
> but even if that's true it's no help.

-- 
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And we never failed to fail / It was the easiest thing to do -- CSN

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