<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><html>On Apr 2, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Brian Phillips <<a href="mailto:brian.phillips@gmx.net">brian.phillips@gmx.net</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">My buddy wants to get this card:<br><a href="http://www.hcditrading.com/Shop/Control/Product/fp/vpid/2867026/vpcsid/0/SFV" target="_blank">http://www.hcditrading.com/Shop/Control/Product/fp/vpid/2867026/vpcsid/0/SFV</a><br> /29664<br><br>It's a cheapo Geforce MX440 64MB card. He wants it because it's cheap and<br>has a DVI-I port. He'll then use a DVI-HDMI connector to hook it up to his<br>TV. He wants to be sure it can handle standard definition television. The<br> computer is a P4 2.8 GHz and is nice.</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>I use an MX440 on my master backend to drive an SD TV in the basement. Works fine.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm using a Geforce2 MX440, as well. Hey, I had it on hand in my junk box. I did have to play with the 'nvtv' utility a bit to get a picture that filled the screen, but that's par for the course. Some of the stuff you can do with xorg.conf directives on the later cards can only be done with nvtv in the legacy drivers.</div><div><br></div><div>For what it's worth, I ended up with this in my .fvwm/config:</div><div><br></div><div> + I Exec sudo nvtv -t -r 800,600 -s Large# -S NTSC</div><div><br></div><div>The main thing happening here is I'm selecting the 'Large' overscan mode with dot crawl reduction. The overscan mode that's best will depend on the TV you're driving. Dot crawl reduction is one of those personal preference things. Some people like the picture better with it off, I like it better with it on. The nice thing about nvtv is you can open an xterm and play with different settings on the fly until you find a set you like.</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>