[mythtv-users] New nVidia driver

Jarod Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Wed Jun 30 20:35:47 EDT 2004


On Wednesday 30 June 2004 17:21, Doug Larrick wrote:
> Get it while it's hot! nVidia's 1.0-6106 driver is released.
>
> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-6106.html

About freakin' time!!! :-)

Axel, I presume you'll have kernel module rpms available in the next ten 
minutes. ;-)

> For HDTV users: this new driver finally supports interlaced modes (i.e.
> 1080i).  Turn off overscan and set your video resolution to 1920x1080;
> you probably want to leave the GUI resolution at 960x540.  Here's my
> working modeline:
>
> Modeline "1080i" 79.84 1920 2040 2200 2368 1080 1090 1106 1125 +vsync
> -hsync interlace
>
> This driver does not re-enable /dev/nvidia0 vertical retrace sync, nor
> does it fix the crashing problem with OpenGL sync that John Poet showed
> me.  I have no idea if it re-enables overscan, as I don't use it.

Looks like my evening just got re-prioritized... I assume these are also 
4kstacks-clean for the latest 2.6 kernels (off to read the changelog now).

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