John Lange wrote:
I put a cheap nvidia (Geforce 5200) in last night but I couldn't get it configured properly.
My TV display works, OR my monitor but not both. Is there a tool for auto-detecting and building an xorg.conf file? I've been manually editing this one for days.
I don't intend to have a monitor attached in the long term but unfortunately I still have problems with MythTv not displaying the video at the proper size and shape in the TV Monitor.
Once again, mplayer works flawlessly from the command line giving a nice full screen playback from the tuner but Myth does not display properly in "WatchTV" mode. The GUI looks fine but tuner playback is terrible.
I will say that other than the Xvideo bug (which might actually be in xorg, not the ATI drivers), the ATI drivers and config tools are miles ahead of Nvidia.
I'm not really sure where to go next. I suppose I might try another "build from scratch" in the hopes it will detect the Nvidia card properly at the start.
John
If you're using Knoppmyth, /etc/init.d/install-nvidia-debian (/etc/rc5.d/S90install-nvidia-debian) is supposed to autodetect and regenerate the X config at boot time. It doesn't always work, however :-) and you might invoke mkxf86config instead. Although, since you're talking about xorg.conf you probably aren't using Knoppmyth...
I would DEFINITELY install the nvidia binary drivers, and not use the built-in "nv" driver; the TV support (and a bunch of other things besides) work noticeably better. Also, the nvidia binary driver supports Xvmc fully, and there is a special output mode for MythTV that uses the nvidia driver's extended Xvmc support to achieve significantly lower cpu usage.
As an added bonus, the nvidia binary drivers will either generate a correct xorg.conf file for you, or at the very least provide decent documentation on how to fix said file yourself.
-Adam