[mythtv-users] Nvidia Driver Woes

[Bruce Markey]

Jason keirstead wrote:
> On June 24, 2004 08:56 pm, Douglas Beck wrote:
> 
>>Hi, All.  My friends myth machine is running FC1 and has an Nvidia 
>>geforce 4mx card in it.  Following Jarod's guide he installed 
>>nvidia-graphics4363 drivers.  For whatever reason this thing hangs hard 
>>(random garbage on screen) when the driver fires up.  The machine is 
>>completely hung at that point.
> 
> 
> 
> Well for one, those dirvers are ancient ( almost 1.5 years old ). One person alreayd said to
> disable RenderAccel, that is because in those old drivers RenderAccel was buggy / unstable. In
> the current 5336 series it is great.

No, it's not. None of the drivers after 4363 do overscan or
work with the vsync video timing.

> Why arnen't you using / trying the latest drivers?  I am using the 5336 drivers with my Debian install
> without any issues whatsoever.

Ignorance is bliss ;-). You just didn't know what it should be
able to do. You cannot resize the TV output and you cannot get
the near flawless frame timing with the experimental A/V sync.

--  bjm