[fire2050]

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.

Then

Code:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential

cd to the directory where your nvidia driver that you just downloaded is and run

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