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If your not already using it, try the binary nvidia drivers. It works great,
atleast on my TNT2 and gforce 2.

Cheers,
Joel

Citerar Hans-Christian Prytz <hcp_public@prytz.net>:

> Hi people.
>
> I'm putting together a new myth box with a FX5200 graphics card.
> So far I have tv-out working (with overscan :-) but I hva a couple of
> problems.
>
> First, when I try to play something with mplayer (testing with mplayer before
>
> installing myth) I can't seem to get it to use xv for video output. Has
> anyone on the list gotten this to work? Naturally this means that things are
>
> ab bit jerky, especially when showing panning shots.
>
> Secondly, the image on the screen seems to flicker somewhat, enough to be
> irritating while watching still pictures.
>
> Sorry that I don't have any further info, I'm just trying to figure out if I
>
> should continue trying to get this card working, or return it (10 day return
>
> policy) .
>
> So has anyone else gotten this card working properly?
>
> Thanks
>
> Hans-Christian
>
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On Thursday 24 July 2003 14:00, joel@rosafluffmoln.nu wrote:
> If your not already using it, try the binary nvidia drivers. It works
> great, atleast on my TNT2 and gforce 2.
>

I am using the latest nvidia drivers, and they have worked fine on another
machine (also Gentoo) with an on-board Geforce2. The only problem there was
with overscan, but xv worked fine.

I'm currently recompiling xfree to see if there is something there that is the
problem.

Also I noteiced something strange with the agpgart module (from gentoo's
kernel 2.4.20-r5). It says "Unsupported bridge" when loading, so I guess the
nvidia driver uses it's own (nvagp)

This might be part of the problem.


Hans-Christian

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Actually its exactly that
from nvidia's readme on the nforce 2 drivers


GART Patch Installation

NOTE: This patch only supports kernel 2.4.20. You will need to either
install kernel 2.4.20 and sources before patching, or manually merge
these changes to other kernel versions.


Patching the Kernel

1. Change to the Linux kernel source directory.

example# cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.20


2. Patch the kernel. Watch out for any warnings or errors.

example# patch -p1 < linux-2.4.20-agpgart.diff


Configuring the Kernel

* In order to use NVIDIA AGP chipset support, the kernel must be
configured accordingly.
* In the kernel source directory, run a kernel configuration tool
such as menuconfig:

example# make menuconfig



* In the 'Processor type and features', make sure that an x86
compatible CPU is selected.
* In the 'Character devices' section, select '/dev/agpgart (AGP
Support)' as an included or modularized kernel feature.
* In the same section, enable 'NVIDIA chipset support'.


In personal experience the fx line does support xv fully, good luck to
you i hope thats the problem (ps there is a patch out there somewhere
for 2.4.21 and nforce just dont have the link right here lemme know if
you need it).




Hans-Christian Prytz wrote:

>On Thursday 24 July 2003 14:00, joel@rosafluffmoln.nu wrote:
>
>
>>If your not already using it, try the binary nvidia drivers. It works
>>great, atleast on my TNT2 and gforce 2.
>>
>>
>>
>
>I am using the latest nvidia drivers, and they have worked fine on another
>machine (also Gentoo) with an on-board Geforce2. The only problem there was
>with overscan, but xv worked fine.
>
>I'm currently recompiling xfree to see if there is something there that is the
>problem.
>
>Also I noteiced something strange with the agpgart module (from gentoo's
>kernel 2.4.20-r5). It says "Unsupported bridge" when loading, so I guess the
>nvidia driver uses it's own (nvagp)
>
>This might be part of the problem.
>
>
>Hans-Christian
>
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On Thursday 24 July 2003 22:16, Ryan Svihla wrote:
> Actually its exactly that
> from nvidia's readme on the nforce 2 drivers
>
>

Thanks for the input.
Before I read this I actually recompiled X and reinstalled the nvidia drivers
from scratch and created a new xf86config file (the content is actually the
same as the old one as far as diff can see :-) and lo and behold, everything
works great!

A bit strange though, but I'm not complaining.

Hans-Christian

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Svihla" <roman@ellipse.net>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] XV and FX5200. Does it work?


> Actually its exactly that
> from nvidia's readme on the nforce 2 drivers
>
>
> GART Patch Installation
>
> NOTE: This patch only supports kernel 2.4.20. You will need to either
> install kernel 2.4.20 and sources before patching, or manually merge
> these changes to other kernel versions.
>
>
> Patching the Kernel
>
> 1. Change to the Linux kernel source directory.
>
> example# cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.20
>
>
> 2. Patch the kernel. Watch out for any warnings or errors.
>
> example# patch -p1 < linux-2.4.20-agpgart.diff
>
>
> Configuring the Kernel
>
> * In order to use NVIDIA AGP chipset support, the kernel must be
> configured accordingly.
> * In the kernel source directory, run a kernel configuration tool
> such as menuconfig:
>
> example# make menuconfig
>
>
>
> * In the 'Processor type and features', make sure that an x86
> compatible CPU is selected.
> * In the 'Character devices' section, select '/dev/agpgart (AGP
> Support)' as an included or modularized kernel feature.
> * In the same section, enable 'NVIDIA chipset support'.
>
>
> In personal experience the fx line does support xv fully, good luck to
> you i hope thats the problem (ps there is a patch out there somewhere
> for 2.4.21 and nforce just dont have the link right here lemme know if
> you need it).
>
>
>
>
> Hans-Christian Prytz wrote:
>
> >On Thursday 24 July 2003 14:00, joel@rosafluffmoln.nu wrote:
> >
> >
> >>If your not already using it, try the binary nvidia drivers. It works
> >>great, atleast on my TNT2 and gforce 2.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I am using the latest nvidia drivers, and they have worked fine on
another
> >machine (also Gentoo) with an on-board Geforce2. The only problem there
was
> >with overscan, but xv worked fine.
> >
> >I'm currently recompiling xfree to see if there is something there that
is the
> >problem.
> >
> >Also I noteiced something strange with the agpgart module (from gentoo's
> >kernel 2.4.20-r5). It says "Unsupported bridge" when loading, so I guess
the
> >nvidia driver uses it's own (nvagp)





Hi all.

Using the nforce2 msi k7n2 and redhat 9 (custom kernel). Also have the same
fx5200. Card works great so far but haven't tried/succeeded with xinerama or
twin view. xv works as well (at least thats the option mplayer passes it in
mythtv for my home videos)
The agpgart is a problem however. Seems to work fine with the generic but
/var/log/messages complains. The patch given by nvidia does work with the
2.20 kernel but does not compile properly with others (in spite of the
readme). I would love the 2.21 kernel patch.


./gary

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Gary,
Sorry it took so long to get back to you about this, been a busy few
days

http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/

I know I wasnt able to get the redhat 9 kernel sources to compile with
this patch. I was able to get the vanilla kernel to do what i needed
it to. Good luck
-Ryan





Gary wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ryan Svihla" <roman@ellipse.net>
>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
>Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:16 PM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] XV and FX5200. Does it work?
>
>
>
>
>>Actually its exactly that
>>from nvidia's readme on the nforce 2 drivers
>>
>>
>> GART Patch Installation
>>
>>NOTE: This patch only supports kernel 2.4.20. You will need to either
>>install kernel 2.4.20 and sources before patching, or manually merge
>>these changes to other kernel versions.
>>
>>
>> Patching the Kernel
>>
>> 1. Change to the Linux kernel source directory.
>>
>>example# cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.20
>>
>>
>> 2. Patch the kernel. Watch out for any warnings or errors.
>>
>>example# patch -p1 < linux-2.4.20-agpgart.diff
>>
>>
>> Configuring the Kernel
>>
>> * In order to use NVIDIA AGP chipset support, the kernel must be
>> configured accordingly.
>> * In the kernel source directory, run a kernel configuration tool
>> such as menuconfig:
>>
>>example# make menuconfig
>>
>>
>>
>> * In the 'Processor type and features', make sure that an x86
>> compatible CPU is selected.
>> * In the 'Character devices' section, select '/dev/agpgart (AGP
>> Support)' as an included or modularized kernel feature.
>> * In the same section, enable 'NVIDIA chipset support'.
>>
>>
>>In personal experience the fx line does support xv fully, good luck to
>>you i hope thats the problem (ps there is a patch out there somewhere
>>for 2.4.21 and nforce just dont have the link right here lemme know if
>>you need it).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Hans-Christian Prytz wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>On Thursday 24 July 2003 14:00, joel@rosafluffmoln.nu wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>If your not already using it, try the binary nvidia drivers. It works
>>>>great, atleast on my TNT2 and gforce 2.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>I am using the latest nvidia drivers, and they have worked fine on
>>>
>>>
>another
>
>
>>>machine (also Gentoo) with an on-board Geforce2. The only problem there
>>>
>>>
>was
>
>
>>>with overscan, but xv worked fine.
>>>
>>>I'm currently recompiling xfree to see if there is something there that
>>>
>>>
>is the
>
>
>>>problem.
>>>
>>>Also I noteiced something strange with the agpgart module (from gentoo's
>>>kernel 2.4.20-r5). It says "Unsupported bridge" when loading, so I guess
>>>
>>>
>the
>
>
>>>nvidia driver uses it's own (nvagp)
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
>
>
>Hi all.
>
>Using the nforce2 msi k7n2 and redhat 9 (custom kernel). Also have the same
>fx5200. Card works great so far but haven't tried/succeeded with xinerama or
>twin view. xv works as well (at least thats the option mplayer passes it in
>mythtv for my home videos)
>The agpgart is a problem however. Seems to work fine with the generic but
>/var/log/messages complains. The patch given by nvidia does work with the
>2.20 kernel but does not compile properly with others (in spite of the
>readme). I would love the 2.21 kernel patch.
>
>
>./gary
>
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Ryan Svihla wrote:

>
> Gary,
> Sorry it took so long to get back to you about this, been a busy
> few days
>
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
>
> I know I wasnt able to get the redhat 9 kernel sources to compile with
> this patch. I was able to get the vanilla kernel to do what i needed
> it to. Good luck
> -Ryan
>
>
>
>
>
> Gary wrote:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ryan Svihla" <roman@ellipse.net>
>> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] XV and FX5200. Does it work?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Actually its exactly that
>>> from nvidia's readme on the nforce 2 drivers
>>>
>>>
>>> GART Patch Installation
>>>
>>> NOTE: This patch only supports kernel 2.4.20. You will need to either
>>> install kernel 2.4.20 and sources before patching, or manually merge
>>> these changes to other kernel versions.
>>>
>>>
>>> Patching the Kernel
>>>
>>> 1. Change to the Linux kernel source directory.
>>>
>>> example# cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.20
>>>
>>>
>>> 2. Patch the kernel. Watch out for any warnings or errors.
>>>
>>> example# patch -p1 < linux-2.4.20-agpgart.diff
>>>
>>>
>>> Configuring the Kernel
>>>
>>> * In order to use NVIDIA AGP chipset support, the kernel must be
>>> configured accordingly.
>>> * In the kernel source directory, run a kernel configuration tool
>>> such as menuconfig:
>>>
>>> example# make menuconfig
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> * In the 'Processor type and features', make sure that an x86
>>> compatible CPU is selected.
>>> * In the 'Character devices' section, select '/dev/agpgart (AGP
>>> Support)' as an included or modularized kernel feature.
>>> * In the same section, enable 'NVIDIA chipset support'.
>>>
>>>
>>> In personal experience the fx line does support xv fully, good luck to
>>> you i hope thats the problem (ps there is a patch out there somewhere
>>> for 2.4.21 and nforce just dont have the link right here lemme know if
>>> you need it).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hans-Christian Prytz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Thursday 24 July 2003 14:00, joel@rosafluffmoln.nu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> If your not already using it, try the binary nvidia drivers. It works
>>>>> great, atleast on my TNT2 and gforce 2.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am using the latest nvidia drivers, and they have worked fine on
>>>>
>>>
>> another
>>
>>
>>>> machine (also Gentoo) with an on-board Geforce2. The only problem
>>>> there
>>>>
>>>
>> was
>>
>>
>>>> with overscan, but xv worked fine.
>>>>
>>>> I'm currently recompiling xfree to see if there is something there
>>>> that
>>>>
>>>
>> is the
>>
>>
>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>>> Also I noteiced something strange with the agpgart module (from
>>>> gentoo's
>>>> kernel 2.4.20-r5). It says "Unsupported bridge" when loading, so I
>>>> guess
>>>>
>>>
>> the
>>
>>
>>>> nvidia driver uses it's own (nvagp)
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Using the nforce2 msi k7n2 and redhat 9 (custom kernel). Also have
>> the same
>> fx5200. Card works great so far but haven't tried/succeeded with
>> xinerama or
>> twin view. xv works as well (at least thats the option mplayer
>> passes it in
>> mythtv for my home videos)
>> The agpgart is a problem however. Seems to work fine with the generic
>> but
>> /var/log/messages complains. The patch given by nvidia does work with
>> the
>> 2.20 kernel but does not compile properly with others (in spite of the
>> readme). I would love the 2.21 kernel patch.
>>
>>
>> ./gary
>>
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Thanks. Will try tomorrow. Looks quite good = i think i'll try his
whole patch as well.

./gary


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