[mythtv-users] Is anyone running the latest NVIDIA drivers?

Boyd II, Willy wboyd at fulbright.com
Mon May 3 16:24:54 EDT 2004


>-----Original Message-----
>From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
>[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Paul Hyui
>Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 2:37 PM
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Subject: [mythtv-users] Is anyone running the latest NVIDIA drivers?
>
>
>I am using the 2.6.4 kernel and the 53.41 drivers...everything 
>works with the TV out but I have some issues.
>
>1) There seems to be some major flickering going on. If I use 
>the GANT theme, my eyes will kill me - not so bad with the 
>Blue theme. I can live with this because there's no flicker 
>when I am watching something....
>
>2) I can't seem to get the TVout to fill up the entire screen. 
>There's like an inch border at the bottom and right side. I 
>already set the overscan to 1.0. This is kind of annoying...

This is kind of an old issue, and if you search the archives, you'll see
that the latest nvidia drivers won't do overscan.  I assume this holds
true for 2.6.x kernels.  Use the 4363 driver instead.


>
>Section "Monitor"
>        Identifier   "Monitor0"
>        VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>        ModelName    "TeeeeVeeee"
>        HorizSync    30 - 50
>        VertRefresh  60 
>        Option      "dpms"
>EndSection
>
>Section "Device"
>        Identifier  "Videocard0"
>        Driver      "nvidia"
>        VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>        BoardName   "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)"
>        #Option      "TwinView" "1"
>        #Option      "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
>        #Option      "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30.0-50.0"
>        #Option      "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60.0"
>        Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
>        Option      "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
>        Option      "TVOverScan" "1.0"
>        Option      "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
>        Option      "RenderAccell" "1"
>EndSection
>



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