[mythtv-users] Advice on getting Geforce MX440 to work

[Jim Chandler]

Yep, but using the XFree nv drivers.  It only froze while watching TV or a
recorded program.  Would freeze at totally random times.  The picture
would just stop and I'd ssh in see that X was consuming 100%.  I even
tried installing the drivers from nvidia with the same results.

Jim

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:51:51 -0700
"Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, Oct 16, 2003, at 14:47 US/Pacific, Jim Chandler wrote:
> 
> > I never could get the nvidia TVout to work reliably.  It was always
> > causing X to freeze (100% CPU utilization by X).  I have a Shuttle 
> > SS51G
> > and tried MX 440 8x GeForce4 cards by both MadDog and eVGA.com.  I 
> > settled
> > on a scan converter (AITECH web cable plus).  Works fine.
> 
> Odd... I never got anything near 100% cpu utilization with any of the 
> four cards I've used. Sounds like possibly a chipset incompatibility or 
> a configuration issue... Are you still using an nVidia card to feed the 
> scan converter?
> 
> --Jarod
> 
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> Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
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