[mythtv-users] nVidia FX 5200, TV out and then some

[Morten Rønseth]

Hi all,

I yesterday received my NVidoa FX 5200 card and installed in my mythbox.
The box booted up with the "nv" driver so I had to make a quick stop 
over at the nVidia wabsite for installer and instructions on how to 
install the latest driver. 10 minutes later all was well :-)
Oh joy!

After wrestling with lame ATI cards for over a month I was delighted to 
see that getting TV output was a doodle. Also, compiling mythtv with 
XvMC enabled oncard assisted mpeg viewing!

But not all is well in nVidia land :-)

I found that:
- when pressing 'm' in view mode, I got a dodgy looking onscreen menu 
(b/wh menu superimposed on the normal - but "jumpy" - colour image). The 
whole TV image was constantly jumping/flickering for the duration of the 
menu. The same happened when pressing 'i' (channel info). This does not 
happen if I disable XvMC assisted mpeg playback in myth.

- when viewing TV on my 32" Sony widescreeen 100HZ TV (PAL), there was a 
strange blue border to the left and at the top of the image. This was 
only the case when actually viewing TV. This was not the case when 
viewing TV on my CRT.

- pressing Alt+Ctl+F1 I switch to tty1, which with my old ATI Rage Pro 
card worked well. Now, however, I get a strange "flashing" ascii 
artwork-like "landscape". Looks like the b/wh console screen is totally 
out of whack.


The first issue I believe might have something to do with my driver (I'm 
using ivtv 0.3.2q, utilising a PVR-150). The other two could be due to 
incorrectly configured screen/monitor settings in xorg.conf, I'll have 
to experiment more with that later.



If anybody have any pointers or any comments whatsoever, I'd be glad to 
hear from you.
I'm THIS close to getting the whole shebang to work, and I believe it 
could be just a matter of tweaking configuration settings to get it working.


I'm running Mandrake 10.1, MythTV 0-17 (latest from cvs), nVidia driver 
7174, ivtv-0.3.2q, PVR-150, nVidia FX 5200.


Cheers,



-Morten

-- 
-------------------------------------------------------------------
WEB-fx
Morten Lerskau Rønseth           http://www.webfx.no
Odinsvei 15c                     mailto:morten at webfx.no
1413 Tårnåsen                    Tlf.: (47) 6680 9191
Norway                           Mob : (47) 9343 4357