[mythtv-users] Advice on getting Geforce MX440 to work

[Jim Chandler]

I never could get the nvidia TVout to work reliably.  It was always
causing X to freeze (100% CPU utilization by X).  I have a Shuttle SS51G
and tried MX 440 8x GeForce4 cards by both MadDog and eVGA.com.  I settled
on a scan converter (AITECH web cable plus).  Works fine.

Jim

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 14:22:32 -0700
"Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, Oct 16, 2003, at 09:13 US/Pacific, Joshua Goldenhar wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 00:15, Derek M. A. Lee-Wo wrote:
> >> I just thought I would share some advice....
> >>
> >> I was trying to setup a RedHat 9 box with MythTV last night.  I was
> >> following Jarod's well-written instructions when I got to the part 
> >> about
> >> using apt-get to install the nVidia drivers.  I installed the drivers
> >
> >> as
> >> instructed, but when I tried to bring up X-Windows after this, I kept
> >> getting a "no screens found" error message.  Nothing I tried fixed
> >the> problem.
> 
> Odd. No problems here either, and I've tried it on multiple machines 
> with various different nVidia cards... So long as your XF86Config is 
> correct, it should work with either source-based or rpm-based 
> installs... If you still have the rpms installed, can you get the 
> output of rpm -qa nvidia*?
> 
> >> Eventually, I decided to download the drivers directly from nVidia
> >and> ran the install process.  It had to do some recompiling, but once
> >that> was done, I was able to get X-Windows to come up.
> 
> Note that some of the TV-Out functions are broken in the latest version 
> on nVidia's site though...
> 
> >> Hopefully this would help other people witha similar problem save
> >some> troubleshooting time.
> >
> > Hmm - I had no such problems using the rpms - but I did notice the
> > latest rpm drivers are not the same version as the latest drivers from
> > nvidia directly.
> 
> Because of the breakage of some TV-Out functionality.
> 
> --Jarod
> 
> -- 
> Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
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