NVidia and SVGA output

[David Timms]

On 13/05/09 05:40, Martín Marqués wrote:
> I have compaq presario F756la with an NVidia video card. I'm using the
> kmod-nvidia driver from rpmfusion, and I got stucked with trying to get
> video output from my notebook to my TV through the SVGA output.
Is this something that has previously been working with Fedora + RPM Fusion?
If so, what versions worked.

> I start totem (my favorite video player) and go to preferences and find
> out that the options for TV output are disabled (they are in light
> grey). Is there some kernel module that I'm missing? Or maybe some
> configration option?
I don't have experience with totem, however, with mplayer, xine, I have 
to use xrandr to manually adjust settings (note this was on an intel 
vga, but I think it should be similar for nv:
xrandr --verbose
xrandr --verbose --output TV --auto
xrandr --verbose --output TV ... see other options.

I do find that at the point of logging in, if the TV is connected, then 
the svideo/video mini din does get activated, and I can watch a DVD on 
my TV ok.

In my area (PAL), I often need to xrandr a setting to enable PAL output, 
instead of the NTSC that the chip seems to default to.

DaveT.