[mythtv-users] Help getting TV out to work - Knoppmyth, MX400 ?

[Shawn]

ffrr wrote:
> I have an old PC that only supports early AGP specs,  and the only card 
> I have found with TV-out is an NVIDIA MX400, which has a composite TV 
> out connection
>
> Following these instructions, 
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8178/README/appendix-h.html
>
> I added
>
> HorizSync 30-50
> VertRefresh 60
>
> Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
> Option "ConnectedMonitor" "TV"
> Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"
>
> to my X config file
>
>
> and installed the MX400 card  (the box already had a TNT2 card which I was using via an external VGA to TV convertor).
>
> I watched it boot on the VGA monitor (which I also had connected to the card's VGA out) and as it started X, 
> the NVIDIA splash screen appeared on my TV (which had been blank up to this point).
>
> Next the TV screen went gray, and showed a mouse cursor in the middle.  
>
>
> This is all normally what I see as it boots, and the next thing to normally appear is the blue background of the myth frontend.  
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't go any further.  It just sits there with no hard disk activity. Looks like X is only partially initialising.
>
> I swapped the TNT2 card back in, and reverted the config file to previous, and now it boots normally again.
>
>
> Is the MX400 a problem card for linux/knoppmyth?  Is there any hope of getting this to work?
>
>
>
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Take a look at my xorg.conf and use it as a reference.

-Shawn
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