[Fwd: Re: [ILUG] Help with nVidia drivers install FC2]

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

Stripped text included :

 > Section "Screen"
 > Identifier "Screen0"
 > Device     "Videocard0"
 > Monitor    "TV"
 > DefaultDepth     24
 > Option"TVStandard""PAL-B"
 > Option"ConnectMonitor""CRT"
 > Option"TVOutFormat""SVIDEO"
 > Option"Overscan""0.0"
 > Option"VESA""1"
 >
 > SubSection "Display"
 > Depth     24
 > Modes    "800x600"
 > EndSubSection
 > EndSection



Really?

Thats news, I wonder if the nv driver which comes with Mandrake 8.1 supports that?

http://nosher.net/useful/geforce-tvout.html

seems to argue with that attestation and yes, it looks like someone has 
released a patch for the nv driver for XFree 4.3.0 (which I can't tell whether 
it's maintained).
http://www.sr20.org/dvb/


I guess if there was good reason to mess about with that then bonus.

However, since the BIOS on your motherboard (unless you're using LinuxBIOS) is 
most likely a closed source, propiatery system.

I concede the principal of using an open source (patched, maintained?) driver 
if you'll use LinuxBIOS or give a good logical reason why I should break a 
system which works for me, relies on a propiatery (fairly critical) chunk of 
code... but *not* flash the mobo bios on every system I, you or (n) comes to, 
on the same principals.
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Bryan O'Donoghue
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