(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Hi,

I'm still new to Linux .... and Puppy too

I'm using nVidia MX420 (not sure about the number:?) and it has Tv-out .... when I load Puppy on Tv(old Sanyo Tv), nVidia take NTSC as default output, and my Tv is not very well compatible with that (i have to manually switch it to NTSC and it doesn't give good colors), so how can I change the output to PAL or others?
I used to use nVidia control panel in XP to change to other modes.

Also the resulotion is too small. ... i think i have to put it on 400 or something .... i saw puppy has other modes but i had to enter some value i didn't understad..maybe cuz the screen wasn't clear .. i will try to look it up on pc.

So is it possible to make that work with Puppy ? and how?

Thanks.

Hi, I need to know about this too, though I have just the mx400 version. As I livein the UK it would be PAL I need.

Option 1: see if there is a jumper setting on your graphics card to select PAL. Easy fix. My nVIDIA TNT graphics card has this jumper.

Option 2: use the "nv-tv-out" utility I attach as a dotpup. I just tried this with my card, and it works - under Xvesa.
Run "nvtv" to launch the GTK gui, and you will see a button for TV standard. Screenshot here http://sourceforge.net/project/screensh ... p_id=33758
Or you can run individual settings from the command line. I think yours will be "nvtv -S PAL".
This will need to be done at every boot up. I suggest you add this command to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local to automate the process.

Option 3: install the proprietary 3D nVIDIA graphics driver from http://dotpups.de/tests/nvidia/ which is supposed to support TV out and control its settings with /etc/X11/xorg.conf
... but I'm using this graphics driver, myself, and I can't get the TV out function to work.

This works great!!!! Thanks for the .pup Tempestuous. Is this the difference between proprietry ATI and Nvidia? Im going for Nvidia every time from now on!

There seem to be a lot of controls, after fiddling with them for a while it seems that the best way of doing things is to set your puppy to run at 800x600 resolution and your television the same.

Just another quick question, the TV I want to use for presentations is widescreen is there any way of setting this to stretch the picture?

Ati has the
fireglcontrolpanel
to set up dual monitors.
It is part of the propriatary Ati-driver, so it just will work with Radeon 8500 and newer.

I'm not shure, if it suports TV-out.

Also try
aticonfig --help
that might set up some options for TV in xorg.conf.

Mark