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> Van: John Burton <john.burton@jbmail.com>
>
> I want to get a tv out card to use with mythtv
> This is use in the UK and I'll be using a PVR-250 so it will need to
> support output of MPG files reasonably well.
>
> What cards are best supported under linux? I want to use gentoo..
> Are ggeforce4 mx cards supported for this under linux?
> I'd appreciate any information, or advice on where I can find this out.

All GeForce cards are supported by the nVidia linux drivers. Though it
seems to be rather difficult to tweak the tv-out of the GF4 MX cards. nvtv
-the 'standard' way of setting over/under-scan etc.- doesn't seem to work
with those cards. Don't know about the 'newest' drivers nVidia though. I
have seen programs other than nvtv that should be able to do it by tweaking
the config driver files, never tried them.

Henk Poley <><

On Monday 09 June 2003 06:40 am, Henk Poley wrote:
> All GeForce cards are supported by the nVidia linux drivers. Though it
> seems to be rather difficult to tweak the tv-out of the GF4 MX cards. nvtv
> -the 'standard' way of setting over/under-scan etc.- doesn't seem to work
> with those cards. Don't know about the 'newest' drivers nVidia though. I
> have seen programs other than nvtv that should be able to do it by tweaking
> the config driver files, never tried them.

I have a GeForce4 MX, and you're correct, nvtv doesn't work for
overscan/underscan. But, with the latest drivers from Nvidia, I can finally
adjust those settings in my XF86Config file... I found the process to be
quite simple, and now my picture fills my whole TV screen!

-JAC