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Re: Just Working tv-output, a starting point

Subject: Re: Just Working tv-output, a starting point
From: Daniel Stone
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:47:04 +1000
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 13:51 +0200, Mattias Eriksson wrote:
> mÃn 2005-09-05 klockan 15:33 +1000 skrev Daniel Stone:
> > On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 13:55 -0400, stoffe wrote:
> > > What is the status of this, and the availability? I really, really would
> > > like to be able to just set Totem in TV out mode and just watch - am I
> > > to understand that this is what it is about? :)
> > 
> > The hardware support is not there yet.
> 
> What do you mean? 
> The nvtv packages I created will work with nvidia (and some other)
> tv-out. When those packages are installed, all you have to do is to
> rebuild the totem package.
> If you mean that autodetection of supported plattforms you are correct,
> that is not available. 
> I haven't been pushing my nvtv packages since I don't have much spare
> time to maintain them, and the interest in Just Working tv output seems
> very limited.

Autodetection is not available.  It does not work outside of a certain
subset of nVidia cards.  Ideally, this would just be dealt with by the X
driver for all the cards that support it (nVidia, ATI, Intel?, SiS,
Via).


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