Hello,

I've checked and i have a GeForce 4 MX 440, and i do see a TV-1 in xrandr but I didn't manage to configure it with xrandr.

I've looked over [2] and by using xrandr --output TV-1 --right-of VGA-1 i managed to extend my desktop to my TV. Also, i see the window transparency effect keeps working ;)

The problem isĀ  - I tried to configure xorg.conf but I didn't manage to add the displays side by side (the TV overlaps with the monitor from the top-left corner), even if they have different resolutions. I have attached my xorg.conf for reference. I realize I must be missing something trivial in the configuration. Anyone care to point it out?

Thanks,
Adrian


On 06/10/2010 01:37 PM, Francisco Jerez wrote:
Adrian Popa <adrian_gh.popa-W9Zz3XeOr4Mo9/FJvwSGXQ@public.gmane.org> writes:

  
Hello everyone,

First of all - congratulations on the success of your project. It was
about time the community did something about the nvidia drivers! :)

Now, I'm still experimenting with nouveau and I have enabled it on a
test system that has a rather old Nvidia card (GeForce4 I think) with
tv-out. Everything works fine, but I haven't been able to find any
examples on how to configure tv-out so I can extend my desktop to my
TV.
    
Which card exactly? nv1x-based gf4 cards should be fine but nv2x GPUs
need an external TV encoder chip (and right now we only have a driver
for ch7006 and similar external encoders). So, if your card has one of
the supported encoders, you'll see a "TV-1" connector in the output of
"xrandr".

  
Can anyone help with a demo configuration of Xorg.conf?

    
It's configured as a regular RandR12 output, so it should just work with
the minimal xorg.conf [1], if you need to do something fancier like
changing the relative output positions or setting TV-specific
properties, see [2] and [3] (check out the TV-related kernel module
parameters too, see "modinfo nouveau").

  
Also, I want to ask - if there is any chance of using two displays
*and* enabling compositing (window transparency effects) - either with
software or hardware acceleration?
    
It should work, but keep in mind that nv1x cards have a rather crude
pitch limitation (you'll get no hw accel if your desktop is larger than
2048x2048).

  
By the way, I am using Xubuntu 10.04.

Regards,
Adrian
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[1] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallNouveau
[2] http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Randr12
[3] http://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12
  


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