[mythtv-users] Can't get good signal to TV

[David Peach]

>>>>nVidia driver 4496
>>>
>>>Use NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4363.run . This supports overscan
>>>and vsync. 4496 does not.
>>
>>
>> I have downgraged to 4346, but that did not help. If you do this, make
>
> 4346 != 4363. Versions before 4363 did not have vsync or
> overscan support either.

I knew if I put a wrong number in somewhere I would get a response. :-)
Thank you, I did mean 4363.

>> sure you downgrade nvidia-glx also. I guess that would have been obvious
>> to most people. But it did stump me for a few minutes.
>
> The installer should have taken care of this for you but if
> it was an earlier version, I think they used to handle it as
> two separate packages.

I would have thought so too. When I installed the newest driver it told me
that nvidia-kernel was a dependency of nvidia-glx, but not the other way
around. So when I went backwards I did nvidia-kernel and forgot to do the
nvidia-glx.

>> I have tried every XF86Configuration that I have been able to find on
>> the
>> Internet with no success.
>>
>> As strange as this may sound, I am going to give it a try anyway. I am
>> going to a friend's house tomorrow to show off the Myth box. I am going
>> to
>> try and hook up to his TV and see if I get any different output. Since I
>> have only one TV, I cannot test to see if it may be my TV that is the
>> problem instead of the card.
>>
>> Is there anyone else out there running this card? I don't remember right
>> off, but I believe that it is the GeForce 2 chipset. The card is an STB
>> Velocity 4400.
>
> GeForce 2? From the nVidia README:
>
>     Overscan is currently only available on GeForce4 or newer GPUs
>     with either NVIDIA or Conexant TV encoders.

At the moment, I don't care about overscan. I just want a picture on my
screen.

> For GeForce 2 you may wan to try nvtv which can control many
> of the parameters for most GeForce 2 cards.

This is the first I have read about nvtv being helpful for my needs. I am
scanning the archives to see if this will help.

Thanks for some direction.

dpeach