Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-03 Thread Joseph A. Caputo
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 18:00, Josh Burks wrote: I hope Leadtek has improved the quality of fans they put on their cards. We have ~2 Dozen white box oem pc's that came with Leadtek nvidia cards. Over half of them growl, due to bearing/bushing failure. The noise drives my co-workers nuts.

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-02 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 21:45, Bryce wrote: On Tue, March 1, 2005 8:01 pm, Jarod Wilson said: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:21, Nate Carlson wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jarod Wilson wrote: I just bought an AGP 6200 that can do the same. Not that expensive. A PCI-X 6200 is even cheaper. A

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:41, Andrew Gallatin wrote: I just bought an AGP 6200 that can do the same. Not that expensive. A PCI-X 6200 is even cheaper. A 6200 alone is cheaper than another card plus a 9A60. Yes, the AGP variants are more

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-02 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 06:38, Andrew Gallatin wrote: My AGP card (which arrived today) was $119. It'll be a while before I get around to hooking it up though. Ah, cool. For some reason, I was thinking 6600 not 6200. Its nice to see one for roughly the same price as a 9a60. It kinda

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-02 Thread Simon Kenyon
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 08:59, Jarod Wilson wrote: I just bought an AGP 6200 that can do the same. Not that expensive. A PCI-X 6200 is even cheaper. A 6200 alone is cheaper than another card plus a 9A60. can i ask how noisy the fan is on the card? -- simon

RE: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-02 Thread Vincent K. Britton
To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i On Tuesday 01 March 2005 21:45, Bryce wrote: On Tue, March 1, 2005 8:01 pm, Jarod Wilson said: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:21, Nate Carlson wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jarod Wilson wrote: I just bought an AGP 6200 that can do the same

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Bryan Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have another, related question: When I use my 1080i modeline, xvidtune reports my resolution as 1920x1080. When I use my 720p or 480p modelines, instead of 1280x720 and 720x480, I get 1024x768 and 640x480 respectively. Perhaps X is rejecting your

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-02 Thread Josh Burks
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:01:18 -0800, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:21, Nate Carlson wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jarod Wilson wrote: I just bought an AGP 6200 that can do the same. Not that expensive. A PCI-X 6200 is even cheaper. A 6200 alone is cheaper

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-02 Thread Bryan Murphy
Andrew Gallatin wrote: Perhaps X is rejecting your desired modes, and falling back to the next available standard mode which it likes. Did you check your log in /var/log/Xorg.0.log for lines like not using mode pertaining to your mode? Yes, actually I do have these entries: (II) NVIDIA(0): Not

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-02 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 15:37, Bryan Murphy wrote: #  Option   TVStandard HD720p   Option   TVStandard HD1080i   Option   TVOverscan 0.0 I wasn't aware that TVStandard or TVOverscan worked via Nvidia DVI. I thought that was a tv-out sort of thing only.  Do they do anything? No,

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-02 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 15:00, Josh Burks wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:01:18 -0800, Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:21, Nate Carlson wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jarod Wilson wrote: I just bought an AGP 6200 that can do the same. Not that expensive. A

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Monday 28 February 2005 17:48, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Alternatively, the thread earlier this month suggests an Nvidia 6600GT should be able to do 1080i on its built-in component out. But those cards all seem to have fans, and are expensive. I just bought an AGP 6200 that can do the same.

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 February 2005 17:48, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Alternatively, the thread earlier this month suggests an Nvidia 6600GT should be able to do 1080i on its built-in component out. But those cards all seem to have fans, and are expensive. I just

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this leaves me with the Audio Authority 9A60. Does going out the VGA port work around the nvidia interlace bug? I've seen this implied, but I don't think anybody has actually come out and said it. If this works, why are people (from the 6600GT

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Tu Holmes
--- Nate Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jarod Wilson wrote: I just bought an AGP 6200 that can do the same. Not that expensive. A PCI-X 6200 is even cheaper. A 6200 alone is cheaper than another card plus a 9A60. Just curious, where did you find NVidia cards

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Bryan Murphy
Andrew Gallatin wrote: The VGA port will not have the interlace bug, you can make it work using the Audio authority. Question... What's the interlace bug? I recently got 1080i working over DVI on my 6600GT. I have a lot of flickering that I can't get rid of (especially with white borders over

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Blammo
My laptop has an onboard NVidia Geforce4 MX 440Go that has an extender with component output. I had to use the Option TVOutFormat COMPOSITE line under Section Device. Component is 3-5 RCA connectors out... Composite is (1). I think you're talking about composite.

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Tu Holmes
--- Blammo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My laptop has an onboard NVidia Geforce4 MX 440Go that has an extender with component output. I had to use the Option TVOutFormat COMPOSITE line under Section Device. Component is 3-5 RCA connectors out... Composite is (1). That's probably

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Bryan Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Gallatin wrote: The VGA port will not have the interlace bug, you can make it work using the Audio authority. Question... What's the interlace bug? I recently got 1080i working over DVI on my 6600GT. I have a lot of flickering that I can't

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Bryan Murphy
The interlace bug has been described as the card drawing the interlaced lines at the wrong place. So rather than drawing line X, followed by line X+1, it draws line X, followed by line X+10. Then it goes back and draws line X+2 followed by X+12. So the picture appears to shake up and down. On

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Brad Templeton
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 09:50:01AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So this leaves me with the Audio Authority 9A60. Does going out the VGA port work around the nvidia interlace bug? I've seen this implied, but I don't think anybody has actually

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:21, Nate Carlson wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jarod Wilson wrote: I just bought an AGP 6200 that can do the same. Not that expensive. A PCI-X 6200 is even cheaper. A 6200 alone is cheaper than another card plus a 9A60. Just curious, where did you find NVidia

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-03-01 Thread Bryce
On Tue, March 1, 2005 8:01 pm, Jarod Wilson said: On Tuesday 01 March 2005 07:21, Nate Carlson wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jarod Wilson wrote: I just bought an AGP 6200 that can do the same. Not that expensive. A PCI-X 6200 is even cheaper. A 6200 alone is cheaper than another card plus a

Re: [mythtv-users] [OT] 1080i

2005-02-28 Thread Brad Templeton
I've been running myth using just xv, and its fine with that, so I'd be happy to give up xvmc if I thought there was a way to get the opensource nv driver to do 1080i. Has anybody tried that? When I try using the nv drivers I can't get anything resembling HD to work. I haven't gone as far

Re: [mythtv-users] OT: 1080i question

2004-12-28 Thread Gordon Rimac
An nvidia card can display any of those resolutions. Here is a guide to setting up custom resolutions using a Windows utility called Powerstrip. Once you get the image tweaked you can export a Linux modeline directly from Powerstrip. You can try other peoples modelines but my experience has