6800 Ultra TV OUT..

[marcelog4]

Hi..

I have a quiestion about the TV OUT functionality of the 6800U...Is there any chance to get TV OUT work?

Marcelo

[aquamac]

Marcello,

Have you tried it & are you saying it doesn't work? I never thought to try it on my Ultra, if I get time I will give it a go tomorrow night. On some cards you need to use the Apple DVI/TV G5 convertor, I have 1 of these so I will give it a go tomorrow night.

Here is the convertor:

store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukstore.woa/6164040/wo/r96frONqut2y3qasGP2IN1OuMJf/9.PSLID?mco=CC1FA7C2&nplm=MA026

[marcelog4]

ahh..yes was read it somewhere about that adapter..i guess we have stores that have that adapters..


thanx

[aquamac]

Right here we go,

After much fiddling around, plug the adapter into a DVI socket & plug the lead into the onboard S video socket that is next to the DVI socket. Although you will get no video out of the adapter, the card needs to see the adapter to output video to the graphics onboard socket.

Hope that is as clear as mud! Good news though that the 6800 does video! You can either mirror the displays or have an extended desktop.

[marcelog4]

very clear...in a few words the adapter give the instructions to the GPU to active the onboard output S-video signal...that´s right?

[aquamac]

Hi Marcello,

Yes that's right. This is the way the TV output seems to work on flashed nvidia cards. On ATI cards I've tried the signal is output through the adapter itself.