On Mon, December 17, 2007 2:15 pm, Gus Wirth wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> On Sun, December 16, 2007 9:20 pm, Joshua Penix wrote: >>> On Dec 16, 2007, at 7:52 PM, Lan Barnes wrote: >>> >>>> Unless there is an unreported conflict between PVR-250s and PVR-150s. >>> >>> Before your re-installation, try taking the PVR-250 out. Then at >>> least you'll be in the same situation as with your old box - a pair of >>> PVR-150s, and the comparison of "the old box didn't do it" will be >>> more telling. >>> >> >> A good test, certainly, but I have another observation to share that >> begs >> a different test first. >> >> On Sunday we went to a seasonal party in the afternoon (stick with me, >> this is going somewhere), and I set the Chargers/Lions to record. We got >> home late, and I started watching on the TV downstairs (output through >> Gus's nVidia card that I downloaded drivers for my own inadequate self). >> >> The playback was herky-jerky in video and sound. Awful. If it hadn't >> been >> Chargers football, I'd have deleted it right then. >> >> Then the 5-yr-old kicked me off in favor of Scoobey-Doo, so I went >> upstairs to the remote FE on my wife's Linux desktop. Watched the first >> three quarters (who _are_ these guys ... and what have they done with >> the >> 2007 San Diego Chargers?). It was smooth as silk, sound and video. >> >> So I'm thinkin' the root cause is probably the Lan-loaded nVidia >> drivers, >> and the preferred solution is the dongle on your card. And then I can >> return the nVidia to Gus. Everybody is served and my conscience is >> lightened (I love to abuse Gus in writing, but not in fact). >> >> Does that sound reasonable? > > Are you using the XvMC portion of the drivers? XvMC has many problems, > and I have found it is really only usable for playing DVD's. Pretty much > any machine with over a 1GHz processor can do playback without XvMC. > > Gus
No. I probably just loaded the wrong drivers. It should be simple to fix. Technically, I already own a working, tested card from Josh. It's a simple task to pass over the dongle so I can use S-video out. If I'm right. End-of-Problem and no new reinstall. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
