[mythtv-users] Nvidia FX5200 with Westinghouse LVM-47w1
Jarod Wilson
lists at wilsonet.com
Tue Jan 30 17:02:12 UTC 2007
Bill wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:34:08 -0800
> Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>
>> On Jan 30, 2007, at 7:02 AM, Bill wrote:
>>
>>> Prob #1) I connected my FX5200 from my DVI to the DVI-2 connector
>>> on the TV. Everything looks perfect! The desktop gives me no
>>> issues, playback in myth gives me no issues, mplayer direct on the
>>> screen is fine. However, if I move through the menus in MythTV
>>> quickly, it begins to get funky. Basically it seems like the TV
>>> goes and resets itself. Then comes back. There is a slight pop
>>> from the speakers. Once it starts happening, it happens each time
>>> I move the selector in the menus. If I go to a playback it does
>>> not happen, or if I go back to the desktop its fine. Only in the
>>> myth menuing. (Which looks perfect by the way). I tried turning
>>> off OpenGL rendering and the same problem.
>>>
>>> Last night I had a dream. I dreamt that during my unpackaging of
>>> the LVM-47w1 I saw an paper insert that showed the two DVI ports on
>>> the back of the tv. In my dream one was indicated as being 1080i
>>> and the other 1080p. I call this a dream since I cannot for the
>>> life of me find it. Also, the manual shows both being 1080p. But
>>> the manual is for two models.
>> Assuming the 47 is the same as my 42, DVI-1 is a dual-link DVI port
>> supporting 1080p and DVI-2 is a single-link DVI port supporting
>> 1080i. I upgraded to a dual-link nvidia 6600 card and changed my DVI
>> cable and they went away. From what I understand I might have only
>> needed to change the cable.
>>
>>> Regardless, I swapped it over to DVI-1 and have not been able to
>>> replicate the problem. But I did not have a chance to put it back
>>> on DVI-2 (had to go to work). Also, there may have been recording
>>> going on last night, but not this morning.
>> You've probably got a single-link DVI cable.
>
>
> So maybe my dream was not just a dream.... If it keeps working fine, I will guess the output as 1080p on DVI-1 was the
> solution.
My 37" Westy's DVI-2 does not support 1080p either, only DVI-1 (and
VGA). And I'm using a single-link DVI cable for 1080p w/o any problems.
>>> The log files are empty of any indication of a problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> Prob #2) I am just throwing this in, since it is bothering me. My
>>> fading menus have gone away at some point last night. It happened
>>> sometime after I added in my FX5200 card and before I gave up for
>>> the night. Part of that was moving from the xorg "nv" driver to
>>> the actual "nvidia" drivers. In my STFW, I came across a
>>> transparency tip.
>> To get the fades, you need to make sure the frontend is using OpenGL
>> rendering (In the Appearance section of Setup) and make sure OpenGL
>> is working on your card. This probably means using the nvidia driver
>> as opposed to the nv driver but I'm not 100% sure of this. I just
>> know that nv has never given me OpenGL.
>
> Definately got the nvidia driver running, and I think OpenGL is running... I've got load "glx", the log file shows:
>
> (II) LoadModule: "glx"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglx.so
> (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.8776
> Module class: X.Org Server Extension
> ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 0.1
> (II) Loading extension GLX
[...]
> (II) Initializing extension GLX
>
> And no errors... when I was getting GL running before I had lots of errors.
>
> Also GLXGEARS runs fine - not sure if that is a positive indicator of a good OpenGL install?
It'll run w/software opengl rendering if hardware opengl isn't working,
but it looks like you have hardware opengl there. So like Brad says,
make sure you're using the OpenGL painter.
>>> Section "Monitor"
>>> Identifier "Westinghouse"
>>> VendorName "Westinghouse"
>>> ModelName "LCD Panel 1920x1080"
>>> HorizSync 31.5 - 90.0
>>> VertRefresh 60.0 - 60.0
>>> ModeLine "1920x1080p" 148.5 1920 2024 2072 2200 1080 1084 1094
>>> 1124 -hsync -vsync
>>> Option "ModeValidation" "NoMaxPClkCheck, NoEdidMaxPClkCheck"
>>> Option "dpms"
>>> EndSection
>> Once you get your hardware sorted out, you probably won't need a
>> modeline. I don't have one and my display looks perfect. (One of the
>> joys of getting a "display" as opposed to a HD-TV - no overscan).
>
> I had tried it without the modeline, and had problems - but that was on the other DVI(2) and could have been with different other settings that were causing problems.
I'll have to try w/o a modeline one of these days myself....
--jarod
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