[mythtv-users] Washed out color with nVidia 5200

[Brandon Beattie]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:28:42PM +0100, Adam Egger wrote:
> Carl Alexander wrote:
> > I second this plea. My nVidia 5700 just doesn't match straight TV. I'm
> > not sure how much this is the nVidia, and how much is the PVR 350
> > doesn't do as good a job rendering the NTSP signal to digital as the
> > analogue tuner in the TV does.
> 
> I own a fanless Nvidia 5200. It's working great with myth and a
> bttv/DVB-t combination. The only thing I don't understand it's speed
> in glxgears. The values are extremely bad, I get values between 300fps
> (with the nv module) and 600fps (nvidia 6629) on debian (Resolution
> 1280x1024/32bit on a LCD flat panel).
> There are users getting 13000 fps with new video cards. Is the 5200
> really this slow?

Sounds like your using software GL.  Make sure you installed NVidia's
GLX packages for their openGL libraries.

--Brandon