[mythtv-users] Which nVidia cards can be used - so many to choose from

[Brad Templeton]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:03:18PM -0500, John Kuhn wrote:
> be warned that while the 5200's do come fanless they get incredibly hot 
> when they are.. not effecting the card much but the overall temp of your 
> case will raise considerably
> 
> also the 5200 has horrible 3d performance (slower then the gf4mx) if you 
> plan on doing any opengl stuff
> 
> otoh i hear the quality of the 5200's tv-out is better..


Warm but not intolerable.  I only played a bit with the tv-out on my
5200, but I must say I had plenty problems with the other cards.  With
the MX 4000 at hi-res to a monitor, it kept going into "blue screen of
xvideo death" which means the xvideo window becomes solid blue and stays
blue until you reboot (modprobe unload and reload no help.)

Anyway, then I went to set up a system for regular video.  My MX 440
card causes the nvidia driver to crash if you boot with just a tv connected.
You can get it to work if you boot with a monitor, unplug the monitor,
and start X on the TV.   Clearly not very workable.   The crash problem
seems reproted by others at nvnews.

The MX 4000 card worked fine in tv-out but the colours are horribly tinted
to the red.  Still looking for a fix on that.