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

[Jarod C. Wilson]

Top-posting rearranged...

> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:51:51 -0700
> "Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?

On Thursday, Oct 16, 2003, at 16:11 US/Pacific, Jim Chandler wrote:

> Yep, but using the XFree nv drivers.  It only froze while watching TV 
> or a
> recorded program.  Would freeze at totally random times.  The picture
> would just stop and I'd ssh in see that X was consuming 100%.  I even
> tried installing the drivers from nvidia with the same results.

Sounds very much like a hardware and/or driver compatibility issue... 
You might try the nvidia driver again, but set it to use nvidia' NvAGP 
instead of the kernel AGPGART...

So wait, you were using the TV-out on that card w/o the nvidia driver?!?

--Jarod

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