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

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Thursday, Oct 16, 2003, at 19:18 US/Pacific, Jim Chandler wrote:

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

Damn.

>> 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.

Okay, I thought so, but your message made it sound like you were first 
using the nv driver before switching to the nvidia driver for TV-Out. 
Me got confused. :) I can understand some high processor load w/the nv 
driver (all scaling done in software), but the nvidia driver should do 
everything in hardware...

Out of curiosity, which version of the nvidia driver were you using? 
Curious if perhaps it is another case of "nVidia broke some stuff 
post-1.0-4363"...

--Jarod

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