[mythtv-users] Video Cards...

[Gregorio Gervasio Jr.]

>>>>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:38:17 -0400, "Keller, Tim" <Tim.Keller at stratus.com> said:

t> Currently I'm using a Nvidia Geforce2 MX400 with s-video outputs and I can't
t> get it to work properly with my TV...

        I have this type of card.  What doesn't work for you?  I don't
have a separate monitor hooked up and occassionally, the console
driver doesn't detect the TV so I have to login blind or remotely.
Once I login and start XFree86 though, it always works.  I use
nVIDIA's drivers (version 1.0-4349) and the entries in my XF86Config
are:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"

    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option      "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
    Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
    Option      "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"  # or "SVIDEO"
EndSection

My card has a CX25871 NTSC encoder and I use "nvtv" to set up
overscanning.  The default modes didn't look good but it wasn't too
hard to create a custom mode.  I can send you a patch for the values
that worked for me if you're interested.
-- 
Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
gtgj at pacbell.net