[mythtv-users] OT - MX4000 to FX5200

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Thu May 4 14:00:49 EDT 2006


Brian Wood wrote:
>
>> However, I still can't get xorg to recognize there is a TV at the  
>> end of
>> the long cable (no matter if it's set to SVIDEO or COMPOSITE).
>> If I replace the long cable with a shorter one, xorg recognizes  
>> there is
>> a TV out there (actually, it's probably the nvidia driver doing the
>> telling) and I get the second screen. With the longer cable, no go.
>>     
>
> I don't know how it is detecting a monitor but if it some sort of DC  
> continuity test then there would be some DC resistance value that it  
> would decide was not a monitor, so it makes sense there would be  
> length limit, although I would have expected it to be hundreds of  
> feet, as sending composite video that far is not uncommon.
>
> Perhaps using better quality cable, RG-6 is designed for RF usage.  
> You might do better with Belden 88281 or something like that which is  
> designed for baseband video.
>   
RG6 should work just fine for this. And, it did with the MX4000.
>   
>> AFAIU, specifying ConnectedMontior "TV" suppose to force video out the
>> SVIDEO port. I don't know why this doesn't work.
>>     
>
> I don't know either but that switch to force things never worked for  
> me either with a couple of different cards.
>   
That's good to know.. I'm not the only one.

Hey, thanks for your input! Thanks to you, too, Kevin!

(if I had money, I'd put together a small quiet little pc for downstairs
and have a separate FE)
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