[mythtv-users] Modelines/Video timings

[Ian Forde]

On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 22:08, Gerald Gryschuk wrote:
> hi.
> 
> Well I've just spent two days trying to get Powerstrip to output a
> signal that my TV would use correctly. I'm about to give up and move on
> to something else but I thought I would try here first for a possible
> solution.
> 
> The situation is that I'm trying to output video to my Panasonic HDTV
> using a VGA to 3 component video adapter at greater than 640x480. My
> specs are as follows,I have both an nvidia and ATI video cards and I
> don't care which one I use to make this work

Use the nvidia.  Search the Gossamer archives.  for HDTV, modeline, and
powerstrop.  You'll see a 20-step howto that I wrote that should cover
it.  (Jarod - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE feel free to copy whatever you want
out of that post and put it up on your page!)

> 
> Panasonic HDTV PT-47WX52CF
> NVIDIA GeForce MX440 64MB from MSI or ATI Radeon 9200 SE 128MB from
> Saphire
> Key Digital Systems ClearColor3 VGA to 3 Component video adapter
> ABIT KV7 Motherboard
> 512 MB
> AMD Athlon 2600+
> 
> If anyone has suggestions for Modelines that should make this work I'd
> appreciate hearing from you. Please note which video card they are for.

I switched from a GeForce4 Ti4200 to a GeForce4 MX440 without changing a
thing in my XFree86 config file and my 960x540 mode worked just fine.

	-i
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