2009-01-07, 04:07
It took forever for 2 of us to figure this out,
This tutorial is intended to help those with less than the supported cards (6 Series) and should be easily applicable to others.
The Problem: The ubuntu repositiories don't host the proper driver for earlier nVidia cards.
The Solution: Venture over to nvidia.com and download the driver for your own project.
Thencd to the directory where your nvidia driver that you just downloaded is and run
Finally, modify your xorg.conf
This was our xorg.conf
This tutorial is intended to help those with less than the supported cards (6 Series) and should be easily applicable to others.
The Problem: The ubuntu repositiories don't host the proper driver for earlier nVidia cards.
The Solution: Venture over to nvidia.com and download the driver for your own project.
Then
Code:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential
Code:
sudo sh *run
Finally, modify your xorg.conf
Our setup used composite out look here for more information.
[HTML]http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/NVidia/TV-OUT[/HTML] This was our xorg.conf
Code:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen" 0 0
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
EndSection
Section "Files"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "RenderAccel" "1"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"
Option "TVOverScan" "0.6"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "nvidia-auto-select"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection