[mythtv-users] New video card crashes PVR-350 card

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/03/2006 08:08 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Eggert Thorlacius writes:
>
>> I have been using a PVR-350 card in my machine for a while and have
>> been using the built-in TV out without problems. Last week, I bought a
>> TV with a DVI connector and a GeForce 6200 card to drive it.
>> The problem is that when I try to display graphics on the TV, the
>> PVR-350 card goes berserk, either freezing the machine completely or
>> creating garbled mpeg files.
>
> You must be using Nvidia's closed source binary blob driver.  Try 
> uninstalling or disabling Nvidia's driver -- reboot and make sure that 
> neither the kernel binary blob, nor any of the userland nvidia X 
> libraries get loaded either, then try to repeat the same experiments 
> with /dev/video0 and ivtv.
>
> If ivtv/myth works when Nvidia's closed source binary code is never 
> loaded, then the incompatibility must be somewhere within Nvidia's 
> binary driver


or within the configuration of NVIDIA's binary driver

> .  Unfortunately, nothing can be done, in that case


--unless, of course, it's the configuration; in which case you need to 
fix your configuration--

> .  Talk to Nvidia. 


Mike