[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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