[mythtv-users] Can't get good signal to TV

[Bruce Markey]

David Peach wrote:
>>David Peach wrote:
>>...
>>
>>>nVidia driver 4496
>>
>>Use NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run . This supports overscan
>>and vsync. 4496 does not.
> 
> 
> I have downgraged to 4346, but that did not help. If you do this, make

4346 != 4363. Versions before 4363 did not have vsync or
overscan support either.

> sure you downgrade nvidia-glx also. I guess that would have been obvious
> to most people. But it did stump me for a few minutes.

The installer should have taken care of this for you but if
it was an earlier version, I think they used to handle it as
two separate packages.

> I have tried every XF86Configuration that I have been able to find on the
> Internet with no success.
> 
> As strange as this may sound, I am going to give it a try anyway. I am
> going to a friend's house tomorrow to show off the Myth box. I am going to
> try and hook up to his TV and see if I get any different output. Since I
> have only one TV, I cannot test to see if it may be my TV that is the
> problem instead of the card.
> 
> Is there anyone else out there running this card? I don't remember right
> off, but I believe that it is the GeForce 2 chipset. The card is an STB
> Velocity 4400.

GeForce 2? From the nVidia README:

    Overscan is currently only available on GeForce4 or newer GPUs
    with either NVIDIA or Conexant TV encoders.

For GeForce 2 you may wan to try nvtv which can control many
of the parameters for most GeForce 2 cards.

--  bjm