[mythtv-users] Video Cards...

[jasonmiller]

If are using the frontend exclusively for running mythtv I would agree with you but I would venture to guess most people who read the list are doing some level of development on the box as well.  Kinda the nature of running from CVS :)  My frontend only has a TV attached to it so I have to administer it remotely.  KDE has a nice built-in vnc server that makes debugging a breeze.  The autohiding toolbar at the bottom makes access to other windows very easy without affect myth in normal operation.   The Konsole has indivdual terminals on tabs which works well for a 640x480 display.  It has a lot of features that are nice.  The same features could be cobbled together with a lighter weight WM but you gotta pick your battles :)

-----Original Message-----
From: John Kelley [mailto:john at kelley.ca]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 1:10 PM
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Video Cards...


What window manager are you using? 

Also if anyone here is, why would you run mythfrontend on top of KDE or
GNOME? I can't see any advantage to using one of those (bloated) window
managers over something simple like FWVM or Blackbox.

	- John

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Keller, Tim
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 4:00 PM
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Video Cards...


Nope, only doing one at a time, either monitor or TV, but not both.  The
issue I was having was that I couldn't find the right sync settings so
that the svideo would work for X on a TV.  It'll boot fine and I'll see
the POST and all that good stuff, but as soon as the X server would
start I'd get the "jaggies"...

I'm still having the issue of the MythTv app running behind the
mythfrontend app...

Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: jasonmiller [mailto:jasonmiller at micron.com]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 14:47 PM
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Video Cards...


Same here.  GeForce 2 MX.  My only issue is it boots up with the TV-Out
set to PAL.  I'd love to be able to change that default.  These cards
don't easily, if at all, work with both a monitor and TV connected at
the same time.  I don't suppose that is your problem?

-----Original Message-----
From: gtgj at pacbell.net [mailto:gtgj at pacbell.net]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 12:31 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Video Cards...


>>>>> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:38:17 -0400, "Keller, Tim"
<Tim.Keller at stratus.com> said:

t> Currently I'm using a Nvidia Geforce2 MX400 with s-video outputs and 
t> I
can't
t> get it to work properly with my TV...

        I have this type of card.  What doesn't work for you?  I don't
have a separate monitor hooked up and occassionally, the console driver
doesn't detect the TV so I have to login blind or remotely. Once I login
and start XFree86 though, it always works.  I use nVIDIA's drivers
(version 1.0-4349) and the entries in my XF86Config
are:

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    BusID       "PCI:3:0:0"

    Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option      "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
    Option      "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
    Option      "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"  # or "SVIDEO"
EndSection

My card has a CX25871 NTSC encoder and I use "nvtv" to set up
overscanning.  The default modes didn't look good but it wasn't too hard
to create a custom mode.  I can send you a patch for the values that
worked for me if you're interested.
-- 
Gregorio Gervasio, Jr.
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