Help with s-video out

[MrGodless]

Hello all, I am having trouble with getting Linux Mint 12 to recognizing my tv which is using the s-video cable. It does not recognize it at all and on the monitor that I have it hooked up on it is sowing "unknown" in the display. The computer is a dell dimension 4700, the graphics card is a GeForce 8600 GT, and the tv is an emerson 32". I have used additional driver to install the right driver for the graphics card but this is all it's giving me :/ If you need anymore information please feel free to ask and I'll prodive whatever you need.

[eiver]

I remember having problems with video via s-video on my 8600 GS on Linux. On windows too (it worked but was buggy). It was Nvidia driver issue. It just didn't show any output on the TV. It worked well with standard VGA cable. Your TV does not have a VGA input as far as google can tell. Perhaps you can use a VGA-to-HDMI cable. Other than that you can only try to uninstall any graphics drivers and download the latest drivers from nvidia site, unless you have done that already. s-video was always buggy on older nvidia's, so I would recommend to use the VGA instead. It will save you a lot of time.

[AlbertP]

If you use the nvidia driver you can't use the Monitors program - please use NVidia X Server Settings instead which you can find in the menu.

[MrGodless]

If you use the nvidia driver you can't use the Monitors program - please use NVidia X Server Settings instead which you can find in the menu.

aahh thank you AlbertP, once I used the X server settings the screen works. The only problem I have now is that it does fit the screen quite right, both the bottom and top bars are not visible along with the sides. I tried going down in resolutions to see if that would fix it but none of them worked. Any suggestions on fixing this problem?

[AlbertP]

You used the TwinView option in X Server Settings?

[tedbell]

Hi,
I am having the same problem with my s-video output on my laptop to my T.V. which unfortunately made me have to settle again for.........Windows.

My xrandr output only shows the laptop screen and a VGA1 which stays disconnected. It doesn't show any s-video connection. I tried detecting displays in the resolution configuration to no avail. I have an Intel 965 integrated device and I installed the appropriate drivers from the repo but it did not work. Is there any solution at all?

Thanks

[AlbertP]

@ tedbell: This is a different problem. Dual-head setup on nvidia graphics is very different from Intel/ATI/AMD. Please open a new topic.

[MrGodless]

You used the TwinView option in X Server Settings?

No, since I have it working on the tv I took the other monitor off. I want to make it where I only have the tv hooked up and no other monitor.

[AlbertP]

Perhaps you need to press Save to Xorg.conf after having set the settings as you like them to be.

[MrGodless]

I haven't messed with the Xorg.conf file any, here is what it looks like:

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Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Default Device"
	Option	"NoLogo"	"True"
EndSection

That is the only things in the file.

[AlbertP]

You shouldn't need to edit xorg.conf by hand as X Server Settings has a "Save to Xorg.conf" button to save the current configuration, then it will remember this when you boot your computer again.

[MrGodless]

Even if I save it, the display still doesn't fit my tv screen. I have tried all resolutions and none of them will make the display fit my screen

[AlbertP]

Did it work with Windows?

Or perhaps the TV has other inputs as well apart from S-Video?

[MrGodless]

It did work with windows, had no problem with it. The tv does have HDMI but I do not have a HDMI card for my PC.