[mythtv-users] overscan problems with nvidia 8400 GS

[sonofzev at iinet.net.au]

On Thu Jul 30 14:57 , Nick Rout  sent:

>On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Dale PontiusDEPontius at edgehp.net> wrote:
>> Tortise wrote:
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>>> Dale Pontius wrote:
>>>> The current tool is "nvidia-settings", and it's been pretty well proven
>>>> to not work for 8xxx+ cards.  However, as mentioned before, the system
>>>> I'm using now has an nVidia 6200, and last night I looked with a mirror,
>>>> and it has an S-Video connector.  So I dug out the manual, and sure
>>>> enough, it has TV-Out.  One of these days I'm going to swap.
>>>
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>>> I would check the driver version you want, I think you need the 173 driver -
and a compatible card - which means 
>>> cards - check the reference I gave you.  I don't think a 6200 will be any
better, except to use less power!
>>>
>>> Also I suggest that you read about S-video on wikipedia.
>>>
>>> I have no experience of radeon cards, Plan C might be good too?
>>>
>> Well, now we're frustrated.  I swapped cards tonight.  The 8400GS is now
>> in this machine, and it's obviously working.  The 6200 is in the
>> MythBox, and it doesn't work.  Well, it works until it's time to start
>> X, then it stops working, or at least stops displaying.  If I jump back
>> to another text VT, I can login and do a ps against my ID, and see that
>> my session has started up - X is running, all of the icewm programs are
>> running, etc.  It's just that nothing comes on the screen.
>>
>> Both systems are using nvidia-drivers-180.60, by the way.
>>
>> I've looked again at the Radeon card on Newegg, and on the Sapphire
>> website.  According to the blurbs, it does s-video, composite, and
>> component video.  But according to the picture it only has the hardware
>> to do s-video or composite.  Because I use the s-video path from the
>> Comcast cable box to the TV, on the back-panel I only have component
>> video available, so I'd really prefer to use that.  I guess it's time to
>> see if the other adapter is available out there, maybe write to Sapphire.
>
>Strong warning against ATi cards in a myth box.
>
>I know there will now be 10 people leap in and say that their ATi
>cards are the bees knees. However that hasn't been my experience
>through trawling this mailing list and numerous other forums.
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I agree.. I tried the onboard Radeon cards on my Mythbox and my music studio box
and had nothing but pain.. 

Why bother when Nvidia has VDPAU already implemented and working reasonably well...

With regards to the problem above it may be a legacy issue.... I started having
numerous problems with an AGP 5700 card a few month back, before utilising a
spare mobo for VDPAU..