[mythtv-users] nVidia ION2 brightnes/dimming

[Bill Williamson]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:26 PM, jmk <jmk at foofus.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 09:12 +0100, Antonio Berrios wrote:
>> I had a similiar issue for ages with an Nvidia 8800 GS HDMI and Sony
>> Bravia V5500. It would periodically dim then come back to normal
>> brightness and it was VERY annoying.
>>
>> I've found the Beta NVIDIA Propriatory drivers 260.xx seemed to have
>> solved the issue but i think this is something to do with them not
>> bundling libvdpau with their drivers anymore.
>>
>> Try installing the 260.xx beta drivers from NVIDIA and updating
>> libvdpau1/libvdpau to the latest version. This seemed to fix it for
>> me.
>
> I installed the 260 nVidia drivers and it didn't resolve the issue. I
> then swapped out the HDMI->HDMI connection with DVI->DVI, which appears
> to have completely corrected the dimming problem. I'm not sure why this
> would fix it, but it's good enough for me.
>
> Joe
>
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I still reckon it's the TV.  It's doing the auto-contrast stuff for
the "video/dvd/movie" port (hdmi) but not the "computer" port (DVI).