[mythtv-users] nVidia ION2 brightnes/dimming

[jmk]

On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 09:12 +0100, Antonio Berrios wrote:
> I had a similiar issue for ages with an Nvidia 8800 GS HDMI and Sony
> Bravia V5500. It would periodically dim then come back to normal
> brightness and it was VERY annoying.
> 
> I've found the Beta NVIDIA Propriatory drivers 260.xx seemed to have
> solved the issue but i think this is something to do with them not
> bundling libvdpau with their drivers anymore.
> 
> Try installing the 260.xx beta drivers from NVIDIA and updating
> libvdpau1/libvdpau to the latest version. This seemed to fix it for
> me.

I installed the 260 nVidia drivers and it didn't resolve the issue. I
then swapped out the HDMI->HDMI connection with DVI->DVI, which appears
to have completely corrected the dimming problem. I'm not sure why this
would fix it, but it's good enough for me.

Joe