Nvidia nview problem

Question

Hello all!
I am facing a problem with my graphics card. It all started when I decided I would like to watch my dvds on my tv screen. I have an nvidia graphics card.
$lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
$
I am using fedora core 2 with kernel 2.6.5-1.358. I installed the drivers for linux from the official site of nvidia, namely the NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run. Everything went well on the installation. I edited my xorg.conf file. If I nsert the following lines on the screen section
#Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
#Option "TVStandard" "PAL-G"
#Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
then when the box boots up everything is shown on my tv and not on my screen. What I would really like to do is configure the file so that I can have everything on both my display and the tv. I read about the nview. But do I have it? How do I check if I do? And if I do, how do I make the configuration so that I get what I want?
Besides thi, which is my major question I noticed something else. When I run the nvidia-settings program I see that the display device is A CTR-0. When I run the system-config-display program I see that the Monitor is L1711S Which is actually my monitor. I believe that the flat monitors are called LCD. So why this disagreement?
thanx to anyone that replies in advance
axelmang
PS I give my xorg.conf file, just in case I havent given you enough details
# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
# RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the
# file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally
# no need to change the default.
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "unix/:7100"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
#Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
# Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1))
# Option "Xleds" "1 2 3"
# To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable.
# Option "XkbDisable"
# To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the
# lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S.
# keyboard, you will probably want to use:
# Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
# If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use:
# Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
# Then to change the language, change the Layout setting.
# For example, a german layout can be obtained with:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# or:
# Option "XkbLayout" "de"
# Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
# Or if you just want both to be control, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us,el"
Option "XkbOptions" "grp:ctrl_shift_toggle"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "L1711S"
DisplaySize 340 270
HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0
VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
#Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
#Option "TVStandard" "PAL-G"
#Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

Answer 1

Better late than never 
About cloning to different resolutions: it's normal that tv screen will be only a "visible" window to larger virtual one that is a clone of crt (that should be quite logical since it's a clone, right?).
So, you can't really have two different resolutions in tweenview mode (at least they are not useful). I suggest to not use it at all :-).
Insead try to configure x using it's standard settings like this:
(it's from my config - I've cut part of the non-vidia settings to make it shorter):
Section "Module"
[cut - insert yours here]
EndSection
Section "Files"
[cut - insert yours here]
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "DefaultServerLayout" "MonitorTV"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
Option "BlankTime" "0" # I don't like it
Option "NoPM" "true" # I don't like it too :-)
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "LogitechCordlessDesktopMX"
[cut - insert yours here]
EndSection
Section "InputDevice" # PS/2 connector
Identifier "LogitechMX700" # 7 buttons enabled
[cut - insert yours here]
EndSection
# Now important things
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Philips109MP"
HorizSync 30-107
VertRefresh 50-160
# this is just for better font rendering - same setting in /etc/fonts/local.conf
DisplaySize 365 273 # 111dpi x 111dpi at 1600x1200
# DisplaySize 367 273 # measured manually (1in = 25.4mm)
# DisplaySize 340 260 # detected
# DisplaySize 369 295 # 88dpi x 88dpi at 1280x1024
# DisplaySize 342 273 # 95dpi x 95dpi at 1280x1024
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "SonyTv29"
HorizSync 30-50
VertRefresh 60
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "NvidiaGeForce4MX440"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Screen 0
BusID "PCI:01:00:0" # This is something very important - find your nvidia bus id settings with lspci
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "NvidiaGeForce4MX440TvOut"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Screen 1
BusID "PCI:01:00:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "MonitorPhilips"
Device "NvidiaGeForce4MX440"
Monitor "Philips109MP"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "TvSony"
Device "NvidiaGeForce4MX440TvOut"
Monitor "SonyTv29"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "MonitorTV"
Screen 0 "MonitorPhilips"
Screen 1 "TvSony" LeftOf "MonitorPhilips"
InputDevice "LogitechMX700" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "LogitechCordlessDesktopMX" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
It should be pretty selfexplanatory. Why these settings are better than tweenview? Because they give you two separate screens with two "desktops" and two fullscreen but different resolutions. First screen (you can check with echo $DISPLAY) is :0.0 (crt - monitor philips in my case) and second is :0.1 (the tv). This also means that you can have different window/desktop managers on each screen (isn't that great?).
The rest depends on your window/desktop manager settings because some of them (with default settings) can use both screens (like kde, fvwm, windowmaker) and some (like xfce4) use only first one (:0.0 - the crt) leaving a second as a standard grey x window. So it's up to you how you want it. Everything should be possible. Personally I leave tv screen grey and use xfce4 (currently) on the crt. You don't need wm to start programs on the tv screen also. Check for your favourite program settings (manual) is should be possible to set display parameter like with mplayer/gmplayer it's:
gmplayer -display :0.1 -fs
or (IIRC)
DISPLAY=":0.1" gmplayer -fs
(this should work too).
It will start gmplayer on the tv in fullscreen mode. If you set it a nice theme (my favourite is OSX - Brushed) you don't need anything else. The bonus effect is that you can use your crt normally while you watch movies and gmplayer "open file" dialog will be opened on crt making it much easier to read and use. You can also set a nice wallpaper using some program like Esetroot or hsetroot etc.
I wrote this in a little hurry so sorry for the style :-)