[mythtv-users] About ready to give up on g200
Ben Brown
ben at handcoder.com
Fri Feb 21 15:30:35 UTC 2003
That's sure to be my problem. I'll check when I get home this evening.
Thanks a bunch
Ben
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Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:14 PM
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Subject: Re: Re: [mythtv-users] About ready to give up on g200
I got artifacts all over the screen when running Xawtv (except for the
Xawtv window). Then I saw this in the mgavideo readme and it solved my
problem:
--------------------
XFree86
Mouse poiner and console font will be garbled if the X server isn not
set to use 4MB less memory than available. To do this check your X
server configuration (/etc/X11/XF86Config) that the line
VideoRam 4096 is there for G200 with 8MB or
VideoRam 8096 for G400 with 16MB if you want MTRR to work (else
12288)
An example:
Section "Device"
Identifier "MGA G200"
VendorName "Matrox"
BoardName "Marvel G200"
VideoRam 4096
EndSection
Also, if you get garbled video when using the DVD add-on, you might want
to try this option (thanks to dag at bakke.com) :
Option "NoHal" "on"
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-Emil
>
> From: "JC" <johnmythtv at crombe.com>
> Date: 2003/02/20 Thu PM 08:25:20 EST
> To: <ben at handcoder.com>, "Discussion about mythtv"
> <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] About ready to give up on g200
>
> Hi Ben,
>
> Did you update the BIOS on the unit? That's the first thing they
> suggest in the G200 "HOWTO" thread and the first thing that I did with
> my G200. After that, things went pretty well.
>
> Good luck,
> JC
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Brown" <ben at handcoder.com>
> To: <mythtv-users at snowman.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 11:01 AM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] About ready to give up on g200
>
>
> > I've been fooling with this Marvel g200 for several days now, and
> > I'm just about ready to throw it out. It just doesn't seem to work.
> > I've updated the Xfree drivers, I've built the mga drivers, and the
> > card 1/2 works. I can run the iv4l1 script and get TV; however, I
> > get weird artifacting all over the screen when I run the iv4l1. I've
> > searched all over the place and have come up short on answers,
> > nothing I try changes the problems. I know several people are using
> > this card, and I was wondering if anybody else had these problems
> > installing this card. Am I missing something in my search? I really
> > want to use this card, so I can have 2 tuners. I have no problem
> > getting mythtv up with my ATI TV Wonder. I hate to keep nagging the
> > list so this will be my last cry for help. I may just toss this
> > card and live with one tuner card. I hate to do that, but I'm
> > getting close to fed up.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ben
> >
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