nVidia TV Out on mythbuntu

I finally put in the LAN cable from my study/lab/network centre to the lounge so the mediacentre was moved to its final location close to the tv. Next up was getting the TV out to work to my tv. I used this site to get it working. Initally I thought I only had only black and white output, and struggled for 2 hours to try to get it working. I even went to far as to buy an S-Video - RCA cable, because a lot of references I found pointed to the fact that the RCA output on nVidia cards sometimes does not work correctly.

Well, after putting the new cable in, it still gave the same black & white results, but I now it works, because I just tested it on the DVD player. I used xclock to test, and it turns out I tried an incorrect/ignored command line option. After using the correct option, I have color! As they say: if it takes longer than 5 minutes it is probably a stupid mistake.

Next up is configuring the TV output to be the default/only display, and getting the remote blaster and my MNet decoder talking.

Here are the portions I had to add to /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get TV output working.

Section "Device"
  Identifier     "Device_tv"
  Driver         "nvidia"
  VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
  BoardName      "GeForce2 MX 100/200"
  Option         "TVStandard" "PAL-I"
  Option         "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
  Option         "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier     "TV"
  HorizSync       30-50
  VertRefresh     50.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
      Identifier "Screen_tv"
      Device "Device_tv"
      Monitor "TV"
      DefaultDepth 16
      Subsection "Display"
              Modes "720x576" "720x480"
      EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
  Identifier     "Layout_tv"
  Screen      0  "Screen_tv" 0 0
  InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
  InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection