[mythtv-users] ntsc video out

[Craig Longman]

Chris Palmer wrote:

>Craig Longman wrote
>  
>
>>i finally took the plunge and downloaded the nvidia driver from their 
>>website, i had really hoped to be able to just stick with the built-in X 
>>stuff, but oh well.
>>    
>>
>you definitely want an accellerated driver over the built-in stuff,
>especially if you might want to run OpenGL stuff sometime.
>
hmm, i didn't know it was running unaccelerated before, it seemed to be 
ok.  anyway, i'm continuing to try now, thanks.

>have no fear.  we're here to help, man... :)  post your file like
>Joseph suggested.  there are some config parameters that are not
>intuitive that need to be done to get things setup.
>
well, i hate clouding this list with clearly non-X related things, but i 
feel like i've subscribed to more lists in the last two weeks than the 
last year!  thanks very much for the offer, here is what i have:

ls /proc/pci shows:

    VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX] 
(rev 178).
      IRQ 16.

and my XFConfig-4 has:

Section "Device"
  Identifier  "NV"
  Driver    "nvidia"
  Option    "TwinView"  "1"
  Option    "NoLogo"  "1"
  Option    "SecondMonitorHorizSync"  "30-50"
  Option    "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
  Option    "TwinViewOrientation"     "Clone"
  Option    "MetaModes"               
"640x480,640x480;640x480,NULL;NULL,640x480"
  Option    "ConnectedMonitor"        ",TV"
  Option    "TVStandard"              "NTSC-M"
  Option    "TVOutFormat"             "COMPOSITE"
  BusID   "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
  Identifier  "TV"
  HorizSync   30-82
  VertRefresh 50-160
EndSection

Section "Screen"
  Identifier  "Default Screen"
  Device    "NV"
  Monitor   "TV"
  DefaultDepth  16
  Subsection "Display"
    Depth   16
    Modes   "640x480"
  EndSubsection
  Subsection "Display"
    Depth   24
    Modes   "640x480"
  EndSubsection
EndSection

if i comment out all the Option stuff in the Driver section, it boots up 
on the monitor/vga fine.

>you might also try an older version of nvidia's driver.  I'm still
>not running the "latest", because what I have is working to a decent
>level of satisfaction (I don't have overscan control in this driver,
>but I get output and I don't want to risk breaking that right now,
>since I do record shows with MythTV pretty regularly and watch them 
>on my TV).
>
yeah, if i got this working here, i wouldn't screw around with it 
either.  at least i know i can always fall back to the nv+nvtv combo, 
not perfect but it works.

right now, i'm slowly commenting things back in to see where it crashes. 
 i'll keep y'all posted if i find anything.

thanks,

    CraigL->Thx();