The process was fairly easy, but I ran into one or two little things to work around:
When using an old nvidia card for TV-out: use nvidia-glx-legacy, not nvidia-glx. This look me all day, dmesg kept saying there was a version mismatch, and there was. Legacy package was required.
When using an old nvidia card for TV-out: In the freevo local_conf.py file, at the end, I added:
OSD_SDL_EXEC_AFTER_STARTUP = 'nvtv -t -r 800,600 -s Normal -S NTSC'
Also I downloaded the binary from the website, and installed all the prereqs from the dapper repositories except mmedia, which didn’t exist. I downloaded it from it’s website, ran the setup and boom good to go.
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