[mythtv-users] Which brand of NVIDIA FX5200?
Al McIntosh
junkmail at allanmcintosh.com
Tue Jan 2 13:12:49 UTC 2007
Tom Corcoran wrote:
> Al McIntosh wrote:
>
>> Phusion wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am looking into getting a NVIDIA FX5200 card, but am not sure what
>>> brand to go with? I see that ASUS and MSI have cards? I would
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> I have used both, each fanless and each worked flawlessly.
>> Interestingly, I had an ASUS version in a frontend and replaced it with
>> an MSI version, I had to recalibrate my TV settings with regard to
>> brightness. contrast, hue and so forth. So even though they were the
>> same chipset the different vendors render slightly different. Once I
>> went through calibrated the TV set using test patterns everything has
>> been great.
>>
>> Al
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> Any chance you could post a sample xorg.conf file for an ASUS or MSI
> 5200 with TVOut configured?
>
It's very simple, ModulePath map out for my FC6 system...
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "v4l"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "fbdevhw"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Unknown monitor"
# make fonts appear larger in myth menu with DisplaySize
DisplaySize 183 144
HorizSync 31.5 - 37.9
VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "Videocard vendor"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option "TVOverScan" "0"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
Option "DigitalVibrance" "100"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 16
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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