On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 00:13 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not quite sure what you are saying when you say you get snow and diagonal > lines, etc.
It's like little dots on the screen. (sort of like when you tune in to the weather channel and it's shows snowing/raining, those animated pictures) The diagonal lines looks like scanning lines. It moves from left to right. > If you do how can you see anything? It's not really all that bad. But quality just isn't good. :-( > > Resolution isn't sharp? I hope you're not trying to compare a standard TV to > even the cheapest PC monitor because you can't compare. I've played with a Mini-ITX MII before with it's TVOut and it's a lot clearer than what I'm seeing now. > You can however try > the nvidia-settings app which will let you adjust some settings for text to > look clearer but video doesn't look as good. Your choice. > I want video to be Clear. That's It. I don't need console text. (SSH) > I run 800x600. What more would you need on your plain TV? Do they run 1024x768? Actually, 800x600 is plenty fine for me as long as it's clear. > They are talking > mode lines and etc for HDTV's and beyond. Plain old TV's you are probably > even ok with 640x480. Ah.. I see. I have a POTV (Plain Old TV) > > > ________________________________ > > Johnny Lee > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ow Mun Heng > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:51 PM > To: Discussion about mythtv > Subject: [mythtv-users] Nvidia-FX5200 TVOut Xorg Configs > > Hi All, > > Just bought a Forsa Nvidia fx5200 Graphics card. It comes with an > SVideo Output and a Svideo to Composite cable. > > I tried it out (the whole day yesterday) and was not able to get a clean > and "teriffic" looking TV-Out. > > I've read multiple email posts on mythtv and searched google as well but > I've not been able to get a clean signal on the TVout. I keep getting > "snow" on the screen. Also, in most cases, when the screen is all black > (Blank), I will see what looks like scanlines running across the screen. > (diagnonally). > > Also, the resolution isn't sharp, the fonts looks Blur too. (In console > mode, I can barely read the output. It looks like it's been > 'strikethrough') > > I read about modelines but I'm guess I still don't understand it. (and > the notion that it can fry my hardware is making me nervous) > > Can anyone help? Post your Xorg.conf file? > > BTW, I'm using a SVIDEO to COMPOSITE cable. Will this degrade quality? > My TV don't have an SVIDEO Input. > > Thanks > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:34:05 up 18:26, 5 users, load average: 0.23, 0.35, 0.53 _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
