xorg.conf for widescreen LCD TV

[Shaggs]

I have just installed Fedora 12 (64 bit), and I'm having troubles getting it working on my widescreen LCD TV. Before I installed the nvidia driver, it worked fine. After I installed the nvidia driver, it showed output on the screen until it gets to the logon screen (I never actually see the logon screen), where it goes black.

I'm assuming this is to do with my xorg.conf file, but I cant for the life of me work out what I need to change. I have been playing with all sorts of options, with no success.

I'll paste my xorg.conf before in the hope that someone can help me.

Any tips/suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Tue Oct 20 21:25:04 PDT 2009

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Layout0"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load "dbe"
    Load "extmod"
    Load "fbdevhw"
    Load "glx"
    Load "record"
    Load "freetype"
    Load "type1"
    Load "v4l"
    Load  "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        VendorName   "Unknown"
        ModelName    "Unknown"
        HorizSync    45.0 - 80.0
        VertRefresh  59.0 - 61.0
        Option      "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Device0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        VendorName  "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Device0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
                modes "1920x1080" "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

[marcrblevins]

Have you looked at the HowTo section?

Here is one that may help you:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=209900

---------- Post added at 10:46 PM CST ---------- Previous post was at 10:45 PM CST ----------

I searched for xrandr and hdtv.

[Shaggs]

I've been searching everywhere! Putting a post on here is my last resort (or at least one of them), not my first.

The link you gave me was for a dual screens - vga and notebook. Not sure if that is really relevant for outputting via DVI to a bigscreen TV...

[marcrblevins]

In your Screen section, you will need?:
Option "UseEDIDdpi" "FALSE"

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=212451

[Shaggs]

Thanks, but this did not work either. I just checked the xorg.log file, and found this bit in it:

---- SNIP START -----
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: X.Org Video Driver
(EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load the NVIDIA kernel module. Please check your
(EE) NVIDIA: system's kernel log for additional error messages.
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Unloading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module-specific error, 0)
----- SNIP END -----

I think this might have something to do with my problems...