[mythtv-users] New Nvidia drivers announced

[David Rees]

On Tue, December 23, 2003 at 5:12 am, Chris Wieringa wrote:
>>>>Looks like Nvidia have released new Linux drivers.  Who's going to be
the first to be brave enough to try the -5328 drivers? I'm sticking with
-4363 until I hear some good reports.
>>Well, I gave them a shot on my almost vanilla 2.4.23 system but it
generated an Oops when loading the module.  Back to -4496 for now.
>
> Ditto.  I changed my XF86Config file to have this line:
>
> Option "NvAGP" "1"
>
> and then the driver worked fine.  This may not be something you want to
do, but I figured I'd play around with it before going back to the old
version.

Weird, setting NvAgp to 1 prevents X from oopsing when starting up, but
the NvAgp driver isn't being used because I have agpgart compiled into the
kernel.

And I found out that -4496 wasn't really working for me as when running
any GL program (like glxgears) would crash X.  Now running -5328 and
glxgears I get like 1300 fps.

Here's a question for you guys:  The picture when in X on my TV is a bit
jittery (it "vibrates" a bit).  Plain text mode appears to be OK (NV FX
5200).  Additionally, the picture is a bit concave (narrower in the middle
than at the top/bottom of the picture.  Various TVOverScan settings don't
seem to affect anything and doesn't seem to matter whether I specify
800x600 or 640x480.

Might this have to do with me using the default X modelines and could be
fixed by specifying modelines?

Thanks,
Dave