[mythtv-users] Can not get SVIDEO to work with GF4MX 440

Brad Fuller bradallenfuller at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 11 23:19:15 UTC 2005



Mark J. Small wrote:

>On August 11, 2005 01:49 pm, Tom wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Mythtv users
>>
>>Got a problem with my GF4MX card, i can not get SVIDEO to work with
>>it. Composite works fine. I also got the feeling, that the resolution
>>is only 640x480, everything looks a little bit pressed together.
>>
>>I am using Ubuntu with nvidia drivers; how can I check which version?
>>Does it matter?
>>
>>Here is the device and screen part of my xorg.conf:
>>
>>********************************************************************
>>Section "Device"
>>        Identifier      "NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]"
>>        Driver          "nvidia"
>>        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
>>        Option          "NoLogo"
>>        Option          "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
>>        Option          "TVStandard"    "PAL-G"
>>        #Option         "TVOutFormat"   "SVIDEO"
>>        Option          "TVOutFormat"   "COMPOSITE"
>>        Option          "TVOverScan"    "0.6"
>>        Option          "RenderAccel"   "0"
>>        Option          "NvAGP"         "1"
>>EndSection
>>********************************************************************
>>Section "Screen"
>>        Identifier      "Default Screen"
>>        Device          "NVIDIA Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]"
>>        Monitor         "tv0"
>>        DefaultDepth    24
>>        SubSection "Display"
>>                Depth           1
>>                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>        EndSubSection
>>        SubSection "Display"
>>                Depth           4
>>                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>        EndSubSection
>>        SubSection "Display"
>>                Depth           8
>>                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>        EndSubSection
>>        SubSection "Display"
>>                Depth           15
>>                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>        EndSubSection
>>        SubSection "Display"
>>                Depth           16
>>                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>        EndSubSection
>>        SubSection "Display"
>>                Depth           24
>>                Modes           "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>>        EndSubSection
>>EndSection
>>********************************************************************
>>
>>Any ideas anyone? Thanks!
>>    
>>
>
>
>Try turning off GLX.  Comment out the "Load GLX" line in the modules section. 
>It worked for me on my debian system.  I never figured out why, but its worth 
>a shot.  
>
>I don't have a composite out on my card, so I don't know if your problem is 
>the same.  I was finding that whenever I tried to use the SVideo out, X would 
>crash with a signal 11 until I disabled the GLX module.
>
>Let me know if it works.  It would be nice to know that somebody else on earth 
>was having the same problem as me.
>
>Mark
>  
>
it used to be that the nvidia instructions dictated to comment out GLX. 
I assume that is still the case.

BTW: Do you have two outputs on the card: an S-Video and a composite? 
Kinda strange since they are basically the same thing.


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