[Gllug] X Modelines for TV Out

[Simon Stewart]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:20:15AM +0000, Richard Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Dan Kolb wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Is anyone here successfully using TV Out from a graphics card to display a
> > picture on a TV? If so, what modelines are you using?
> >
> > I've got a Voodoo3 3000 (w/ TV Out), and XFree86 4.1.0. I tried looking for
> > modelines via google, but none of them seemed to work (I got a 640x480 NTSC
> > modeline working, but that's not much use in B&W :-)
> 
> I've used:
> fbset/fbset -fb /dev/fb0 -left 18 -right 0 -upper 39 -lower 10 -hslen 46
> -vslen 4 -xres 720 -yres 576 -vxres 720 -vyres 576 -depth 32 -laced false
> -bcast true
> 
> for tv-out from my G400, using the framebuffer console rather than X.  You
> can convert that to an X modeline (no, I can't remember how), but I don't
> know how portable it is between cards (or even TVs!).

fbset -x should do the trick according to the man page....

Cheers,

Simon

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