[mythtv-users] TV Out with STB Velocity 4400

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Donald McLennan wrote:

> There have been a few posts in the past (Jan - Can't get good signal 
> to TV )* * describing problems running mythtv to the TVOut on the STB 
> Velocity 4400 card (16MB with TV).  I'm experimenting with this and am 
> having some/similar configuration issues.  The funny thing is 
> that when connected to our TV using the yellow RCA cable (composite) 
> the video looks OK during linux boot.  The Fedora graphical login, the 
> TV signal is not synced and the picture is rolling and sliced 
> diagonal.  The rest of linux X does not display properly.
>  
> I've installed nvidia drivers 4363, per the groups recommendations.
>  
> My XConfig file is below.  I've tried random settings on TVOverScan 
> and RenderAccel.  I have not considered nvtv since this appears to 
> work and looks like just some XConfig settings.  I've also tried with 
> only the TV connected, both TV and monitor connected, etc. 


You might want to read Jarrods guide, or the readme for the nvidia 
drivers.  RenderAccel is a boolean (1 or 0) TVOverscan is a floating 
point number between 0 and 1.0. Though not having those shouldn't mess 
up your picture they way you described.