[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Video Cardsa and TV Out

[Kevin Hulse]

Are there any special considerations to using the NTSC output besides using a conformant display resolution? I'd like to build a headless server box and I don't have any monitors laying about. I'd like to use the living room TV as a console display during a Debian Sarge install and then just shove the box in some dark corner.
 
I'm an old Atari user, so the prospect of a TV-as-monitor doesn't really bother me.

I have yet to build the box, so I am open to vidcard suggestions. I really only need the cheapest thing avaliable that can display NTSC under Linux running textmode.

Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
Make sure you use an S-Video cable for the connection. I surf the web 
on my TV and with the S-Video it is easily readable (with an old ATI card).


Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> This is mostly off topic unless I decided to see if I
> can get the new Unreal 2004 game to run on linux....
> 
> An XBOX is basically a PC. How does it get graphics
> to show up good on a standard TV when PC Video out
> cards do such a poor job. Or do the newer video
> cards with TV out do a better job than they used to?
> 
> I'd like to move a PC into the TV room and use it
> to play games and surf the net on the TV. but I just
> remember how bad the TV out used to be. Has it gotter
> better?
> 
> Now to move this to more of a linux discussion... if
> I do want to try and get a video card doing TV Out...
> do the linux xwindows Radeon 9XXX drivers support
> TV out or am I going to have to do some software
> updates and what not just to see what the picture
> will look like.