[mythtv-users] Help getting my mythtv box connected to my Sony TV

Joshua Caskey ummgewd at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 12 22:07:54 UTC 2006


I feel like a moron now because after you sent this I realize another person was nice enough to send their xorg.conf file to the list this month.  I just was not able to find it using google.  I am going to try this when I get home on Wednesday and I'll post again if I am still having issues.
 
Thanks

----- Original Message ----
From: Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>
To: Joshua Caskey <ummgewd at yahoo.com>; Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 9:15:14 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Help getting my mythtv box connected to my Sony TV


On 6/10/06, Joshua Caskey <ummgewd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone. I am trying desperately to get a high definition mythtv box up
> and running.  Please be understanding as I have tried to look everywhere for
> an answer to this issue and have not been able find an answer.
> I have managed to get everything going except my connection to my TV.  I
> have a Sony GWIV  or KDF-60WF655 tv.  I got a bunch of powerstrip timings
> off of the avsforum site for my TV.  When I first put "IgnoreEDID" "1" I was
> getting a 720x480 resolution.  I realized after looking at my Xorg.0.log
> file that that option was deprecated and I changed the line to "UseEDID"
> "FALSE" which caused instead of the low resolution a blank screen.  I tried
> most of the resolutions in my Xorg file below and none work.  All result in
> a blank screen.  I know the connection is okay since I can get the desktop
> on my TV before I fixed the UseEDID problem.  I have a NVIDIA FX5200 generic
> video card with 128MB of ram.  The card is hooked to the TV via a DVI to
> HDMI cable.  My video driver is version 8756 which I got from the yum
> atrpms.net server.
>
> I am hoping someone reading this mail list has a GWIII or GWIV Sony TV and
> can give me some pointers.  I have read all over the internet and cannot
> seem to figure this one out.  Thanks in advance for your help.  (Please give
> instructions if you need more info since I am new to linux.)
> I have not gone into the service manual on my tv if that matters. I am using
> the 8756 nvidia driver.
>
> Here is the necessary sections of my xorg.conf file:  (Three items I guessed
> on are HorizSync, VertRefresh, and the +hsync and +vsync.  Can you give me
> more info on this because the powerstrip timings I found do not let me know
> how to set these items).
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "Sony60"
> VendorName "Sony"
> ModelName "KDF60"
> Option "UseEDID" "FALSE"
> DisplaySize 320 180
> HorizSync 30.0 - 90.0
> VertRefresh 20.0 - 150.0
> ModeLine "720x480" 27.000 720 736 798 858 480 489 495 525 +hsync +vsync
> ModeLine "800x600" 58.712 800 1048 1072 1304 600 640 642 753 +hsync +vsync
> ModeLine "1280x720" 75.600 1280 1360 1400 1648 720 738 757 787 +hsync +vsync
> ModeLine "1280x768" 79.740 1280 1360 1496 1736 768 769 781 787 +hsync +vsync
> ModeLine "1304x734" 74.250 1304 1336 1376 1648 734 745 750 773 +hsync +vsync
> ModeLine "1312x744" 79.096 1312 1376 1512 1728 744 745 748 774 +hsync +vsync
> ModeLine "1320x744" 78.140 1320 1384 1520 1720 734 758 763 784 +hsync +vsync
> ModeLine "1344x734" 78.923 1344 1512 1560 1720 734 758 763 784 +hsync +vsync
> ModeLine "1376x768" 86.946 1376 1440 1576 1912 768 777 780 780 +hsync +vsync
> ModeLine "1384x768" 84.203 1384 1512 1656 1872 768 768 771 771 +hsync +vsync
> ModeLine "1384x784" 85.421 1384 1456 1600 1816 784 785 788 811 +hsync +vsync
> ModeLine "640x480" 26.730 640 690 746 792 480 518 548 562 +hsync +vsync
> interlace
> ModeLine "1920x1080" 82.350 1920 2089 2145 2440 1080 1082 1087 1125 +hsync
> +vsync
> interlace
> EndSection
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Videocard0"
> Driver "nvidia"
> VendorName "Videocard vendor"
> BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
> Option "RenderAccel" "true"
> Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
> Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
> Option "NoLogo" "1"
> Option "RenderAccel" "true"
> Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
> Option "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP"
> Option "NoLogo" "1"
> EndSection
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen0"
> Device "Videocard0"
> Monitor "Sony60"
> DefaultDepth 24
> SubSection "Display"
> Viewport 0 0
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x720"
> EndSubSection
> EndSection
> Section "DRI"
> Group 0
> Mode 0666
> EndSection
>
> Here is the output from my xorg.0.log file if I comment out the UseEDID
> line.  (Let me know if you need more info.)
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce FX 5200 at PCI:1:0:0
> (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 131072 kBytes
> (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 04.34.20.27.00
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected AGP rate: 8X
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce FX 5200 at PCI:1:0:0:
> (--) NVIDIA(0):     Sony TV (DFP-0)
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Sony TV (DFP-0): 135 MHz maximum pixel clock
> (--) NVIDIA(0): Sony TV (DFP-0): Internal Single Link TMDS
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for "1320x744"; removing.
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to validate any modes; falling back to the default
> mode
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):     "nvidia-auto-select".
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
> (II) NVIDIA(0):     "nvidia-auto-select"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 720 x 480
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): No size information available in DFP-0's EDID; cannot
> compute
> (WW) NVIDIA(0):     DPI from EDID.
> (**) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (57, 67); computed from "DisplaySize" Monitor
> section option
> (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp


have you tried any of the Sony modelines at
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Modeline_Database
?

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