[mythtv-users] Advice on getting Geforce MX440 to work

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Thu Oct 16 16:51:51 EDT 2003


On Thursday, Oct 16, 2003, at 14:47 US/Pacific, Jim Chandler wrote:

> I never could get the nvidia TVout to work reliably.  It was always
> causing X to freeze (100% CPU utilization by X).  I have a Shuttle 
> SS51G
> and tried MX 440 8x GeForce4 cards by both MadDog and eVGA.com.  I 
> settled
> on a scan converter (AITECH web cable plus).  Works fine.

Odd... I never got anything near 100% cpu utilization with any of the 
four cards I've used. Sounds like possibly a chipset incompatibility or 
a configuration issue... Are you still using an nVidia card to feed the 
scan converter?

--Jarod

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