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

[Jim Chandler]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:46:32 -0700
"Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:

> Top-posting rearranged...
> 
> > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:51:51 -0700
> > "Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thursday, Oct 16, 2003, at 14:47 US/Pacific, Jim Chandler wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> Odd... I never got anything near 100% cpu utilization with any of the
> >> four cards I've used. Sounds like possibly a chipset incompatibility 
> >> or
> >> a configuration issue... Are you still using an nVidia card to feed 
> >> the
> >> scan converter?
> 
> On Thursday, Oct 16, 2003, at 16:11 US/Pacific, Jim Chandler wrote:
> 
> > Yep, but using the XFree nv drivers.  It only froze while watching TV 
> > or a
> > recorded program.  Would freeze at totally random times.  The picture
> > would just stop and I'd ssh in see that X was consuming 100%.  I even
> > tried installing the drivers from nvidia with the same results.
> 
> Sounds very much like a hardware and/or driver compatibility issue... 
> You might try the nvidia driver again, but set it to use nvidia' NvAGP 
> instead of the kernel AGPGART...
> 

Tried that, no joy.

> So wait, you were using the TV-out on that card w/o the nvidia driver?!?
> 
Nope, I wish.  As you know, TVout will only work with the nvidia driver, not nv.

Jim