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5200 or 6200

On 1/27/07, Gary M <garymcm (at) gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/26/07, Steve Hodge <stevehodge (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/27/07, Gary M <garymcm (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> The fact that the dongle works but not the cable doesn't prove that the
> cable doesn't carry analog - it could be that the TV only accepts digital
> signals via DVI (this is common).
>  Steve

The TV definitely only has DVI-D. It was the card that had the
question mark. The DVI out of the card I am pretty sure is DVI-A only.

I doubt it would be intended to be DVI-A only, though it may be faulty. For one thing there's a DVI implementation built into the GPU, so there is nothing to gain by doing DVI-A only. For another, DVI-A is basically useless - there a few monitors/TVs that take it as an input.
Generally if you want analog you use VGA.

Anyway, I decided to double check that the FX5200 in my Myth box works ok with DVI (I usually use VGA). It does, but only if I have the "TwinView" option set to "true" in the Device section of my xorg.conf file (there are other TwinView related options you might need - look at the nvidia driver readme). If you've got TwinView set correctly then perhaps the card is faulty. The FX5200s I use (and I've had three of them) are pretty much always the cheapest I can find, no-name brands. I'd be stunned if they output DVI-D but your one doesn't.

Cheers,
Steve

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