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IainCE
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:35 am    Post subject: Resize monitor cloned onto TV (twinview) Reply with quote

Hello I have connected my computer using s-video to my television and all has gone surprisingly well so far.
The only problem now is that to be able to fullscreen my media player and watch movies nicely I need to run the resolution 640x480 on my monitor...

Is there a way I can still run 1152x864 res on my monitor and scale it down to 640x480 for my television? At the moment I need to keep changing Xorg.conf's for each need.

Here is what I am using to watch my movies:

Code:

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
        ModelName    "Monitor Model"
        HorizSync    30-70
        VertRefresh  50-160
        Modeline "1024x768" 60.80  1024 1056 1128 1272   768 768 770 796
        Modeline "1152x864" 79.16  1152 1192 1288 1472   864  864  866  896
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Option      "NoLogo"                    "1"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
        BoardName   "NV34 [GeForce FX 5200]"

        Option          "TwinView"
        Option          "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"

        Option          "MetaModes" "640x480,640x480"

        Option          "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, TV"
        Option          "TVStandard" "PAL-I"
        Option          "TVOutFormat" "Svideo"

        BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection


Any inputs in how to do this would be most appreciated. :D
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mc_barron
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Joined: 28 Aug 2003
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Location: Chicago, IL

PostPosted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:58 pm    Post subject: Meta Modes might be the key Reply with quote

Hey,

I haven't gotten my s-video working (different card, more problems than you appear to be having), but aren't the meta modes what controls the resolution on each device?
For instance, to run the TV at 640x480 and the monitor at 1024x768, I think you can use this line:
Option "MetaModes" "1024x768,640x480"
?

I am not sure, but worth a try...
mike
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ahubu
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Location: Groningen, The Netherlands

PostPosted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122823&highlight=nvtv

this really works great.
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