On 3 Feb 2009, at 00:58, Theunis Potgieter wrote:
There is a VGA -> RGB connector that you can assemble/buy. I've seen in the xorg.conf that you can still force your VGA out to run on
50Hz,
by disabling EDID on the nvidia xorg.conf Options.
Yes this is what I'll be trying, but I'll just get an nvidia component breakout box, they're about $10 on ebay.
It appears that the component output breakout cable still uses the tvencoder chip..
I was able to avoid tearing finally (!) by disabling the composite extension.
Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection
I then got pixel perfect component pal output without overscan. But now i'm left with.. judder !!!
Watching live sports i get judder, it almost looks like it's dropping every even or odd field.. It might be that it's just that field parity is not observed, but it's a bit hard to make out.
Am beginning to think that nvidia hardware is useless for 50Hz pal output..