[mythtv-users] Re: New nVidia driver

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Wed Jun 30 20:56:36 EDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:35:47PM -0700, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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. ;-)

You mean half an hour ago ;)
I will upload tomorrow, as I am currently overdue with sleep
deficiency ...

> > 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).

That's the even better news! :) :) :)
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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