[mythtv-users] New video card crashes PVR-350 card
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu May 4 17:40:38 EDT 2006
On 05/03/2006 08:08 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Eggert Thorlacius writes:
>
>> I have been using a PVR-350 card in my machine for a while and have
>> been using the built-in TV out without problems. Last week, I bought a
>> TV with a DVI connector and a GeForce 6200 card to drive it.
>> The problem is that when I try to display graphics on the TV, the
>> PVR-350 card goes berserk, either freezing the machine completely or
>> creating garbled mpeg files.
>
> You must be using Nvidia's closed source binary blob driver. Try
> uninstalling or disabling Nvidia's driver -- reboot and make sure that
> neither the kernel binary blob, nor any of the userland nvidia X
> libraries get loaded either, then try to repeat the same experiments
> with /dev/video0 and ivtv.
>
> If ivtv/myth works when Nvidia's closed source binary code is never
> loaded, then the incompatibility must be somewhere within Nvidia's
> binary driver
or within the configuration of NVIDIA's binary driver
> . Unfortunately, nothing can be done, in that case
--unless, of course, it's the configuration; in which case you need to
fix your configuration--
> . Talk to Nvidia.
Mike
More information about the mythtv-users
mailing list