[mythtv-users] Nvidia Driver Woes

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Thu Jun 24 19:35:14 EDT 2004


On Friday 25 June 2004 15:09, Jason keirstead wrote:
> On June 24, 2004 10:41 pm, Bruce Markey wrote:
> > No, it's not. None of the drivers after 4363 do overscan or
> > work with the vsync video timing.
>
> I have had no need to overscan personally, and I don't know what vsync
> timing is.All I can say that for me, as an average user, they work perfect

You're new here, so we'll cut you some slack. The "average user" on this list 
wants overscan and vsync.

> - and the fact I can just run the installer hand have it work, and that it
> has accellerated XRender for my other apps I run on the TV, outweighs the
> need for capabilitys I don't need in old drivers.

The main thing drastically improved in the newer nVidia drivers is OpenGL 
performance, which means next to nothing on a dedicated Myth box for most 
users.

> > Ignorance is bliss ;-). You just didn't know what it should be
> > able to do. You cannot resize the TV output and you cannot get
> > the near flawless frame timing with the experimental A/V sync.
>
> I have no issues with my frame timing so I don't care :P

Well, if you don't care to know the whole story, please don't give other 
people advice.

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