[mythtv-users] Advice on getting Geforce MX440 to work
Jim Chandler
jim at chandler.net
Thu Oct 16 22:18:55 EDT 2003
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:46:32 -0700
"Jarod C. Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> 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...
>
Tried that, no joy.
> So wait, you were using the TV-out on that card w/o the nvidia driver?!?
>
Nope, I wish. As you know, TVout will only work with the nvidia driver, not nv.
Jim
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