On 6/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">MartinG</b> <<a href="mailto:gronslet@gmail.com">gronslet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 6/12/07, Brad DerManouelian <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I'm thrilled with my 6200. It's not fanless because I bought one of the<br>> first models that came out and it's overclocked, but there are fanless ones
<br>> now. You only need to worry about a black and white overlay if you're<br>> running with XvMC. If you have enough processing power to not need XvMC, any<br>> of the nvidia cards will function properly.<br>
<br>Good to hear someone recommend the 6200 :)<br><br>I've got one of those myself:<br># lspci -v -s01:00.0<br>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce<br>6200] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA])<br>
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 81c7<br> Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 17<br> Memory at 81000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]<br> Memory at 90000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
<br> Memory at 82000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]<br> [virtual] Expansion ROM at 80200000 [disabled] [size=128K]<br> Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2<br> Capabilities: [44] AGP version
3.0<br><br><br>but I haven't had any good experience with TV-out on that card. I use<br>an old CRT TV, and run mythtv using the composite output.<br><br>I've search the archives, and google'd around, but haven't been able
<br>to digest the information overfow, and tracing threads changing<br>subject but not subject line is a bit tedious ;)<br><br>Anyhow, my problem is that I get a lot of tearing in the picture (both<br>when watching liveTV and for example DVD's, so it is not a ivtv
<br>problem (I think)). Essentially, I get a horisontal line about 1/3<br>down the screen, with the picture a bit "out of sync" on the top 1/3<br>compared with the bottom 2/3rds.<br><br>I also have some problems with "NVP: prebuffering pause" and
<br>"NVP: Prebuffer wait timed out 10 times." etc from the frontend logs.<br><br>I've been experimenting with alot of different settings, and currently<br>I'm using the following (mythfrontend/utilities-setup/setup/tv
<br>settings/playback):<br><br>Deinterlace playback: off (have tried both on and off)<br>Preferred MPEG2 Decoder: Standard (Have tried all)<br>Enable OpenGL vertical sync for timing: off (have tried on)<br>Use video as timebase: off (have tried on, but the audio is pretty
<br>much in sync now)<br>Extra audio buffering: on<br><br><br>I run both the frontend and the backend on the same machine, a<br>dualcore Intel Pentium III 1266MHz. Each cpu is never above ~30% load.<br><br>I followed Jarod Wilson excellent guide, and run this using atrpms on FC6:
<br># rpm -qa \*nvidia\*<br><a href="http://nvidia-graphics-helpers-0.0.18-19.fc6.at">nvidia-graphics-helpers-0.0.18-19.fc6.at</a><br>nvidia-graphics9755-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6-1.0_9755-87.fc6<br><a href="http://nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-5.fc6.at">
nvidia-graphics-devices-1.0-5.fc6.at</a><br>nvidia-graphics9755-1.0_9755-87.fc6<br>nvidia-x11-drv-1.0.9762-1<br>nvidia-graphics9755-libs-1.0_9755-87.fc6<br><br># rpm -q mythtv-suite<br>mythtv-suite-0.20.1-157.fc6<br><br>My
xorg.conf is attached. (I only use the composite output, and have<br>no regular computer monitor attached).<br><br>When I log in, I automatically call "nvidia-settings<br>--load-config-only" in order to get the output to fit my TV screen.
<br><br>So to wrap it up:<br>I use the Nvidia GeForce 6200, using TV-out, composite (PAL-B), but am<br>not satisfied with the picture quality (even when playing a DVD).<br>Probably I haven't got the settings right - any hints would be greatly
<br>appreciated.<br><br>If this has been discussed and solved for my setup earlier on this<br>list, I apologies, and would be greatful for a link.<br><br>Thanks!<br><br>-MartinG<br></blockquote></div><br>I run the 6200 also. Mine is fan less. Cost around $60 bucks I think. I run two different X display. One via VGA the other via DMI to HDMI. It does everything great no problems here. I used to do XvMC with HD material, but stopped. With XvMC I had some jumpiness to my output. Without XvMC enable there is no jumpiness. I think some of the newer Nvidia cards have better XvMC support than the first that supported XvMC. Might want to check that out.
<br><br>TK<br>