Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Karl Lattimer
The overscan option on nvidia drivers was done away with a lnng time ago, and now it only works for quatro cards. Instead for desktop users nvidia introduced with the 6000 series drivers nvidia-settings, if you get into X and run nvidia-settings you can change the overscan interactively the

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Jaap Struyk
Op do 14-07-2005, om 04:15 schreef Andreas Fürtig: does anybody of you know a good site with documentation about this thing, or does anyone else uses a geforce and doesnt have those borders? The overscan function only works from GF3 and above, so your GF2 is unsupported. But there's another

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Karl Lattimer
The overscan function only works from GF3 and above, so your GF2 is I have two GF4's and previously a 5900 and 5200 series and now i have a 6800 Ultra, the overscan function doesn't work with any of these cards. If it works with the GF3 I would be very surprised. I suggest that you try nvidia

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Jaap Struyk
Op do 14-07-2005, om 09:52 schreef Karl Lattimer: I have two GF4's and previously a 5900 and 5200 series and now i have a 6800 Ultra, the overscan function doesn't work with any of these cards. I got these info from the nvidia README but could be wrong (bad memory). I bought an GF4 half a year

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Andreas Fürtig
i tried this nvtv and with the gui, it worked vor me. i have to use the 800x600 option with overscan -4.17,-4.17 and Large, but when i use the command nvtv -t -r 800,600 -s Large it doesnt work. ok the borders are gone, but freevo is only in the left upper corner and i have colored lines over

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Andreas Fürtig
ok, i try nvidia-settings, but cant find anything with overscan. hmm where do i find it? any ideas? greetz andieh On Thursday 14 July 2005 07:40, Karl Lattimer wrote: The overscan option on nvidia drivers was done away with a lnng time ago, and now it only works for quatro

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Karl Lattimer
If you take a look at the display settings for your TV you should see it in there. Alternatively I can send you a nvidia-settings rc file which has the settings in it. On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 15:28 +, Andreas Fürtig wrote: ok, i try nvidia-settings, but cant find anything with overscan. hmm

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Andreas Fürtig
yeah, this would be very nice! thank you andieh On Thursday 14 July 2005 14:04, Karl Lattimer wrote: If you take a look at the display settings for your TV you should see it in there. Alternatively I can send you a nvidia-settings rc file which has the settings in it. On Thu, 2005-07-14

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Karl Lattimer
You should be able to spot the settings in there; 0/TVOverScan[TV-0]=15 You may also want to tweak this 0/TVFlickerFilter[TV-0]=160 It can sometimes be too high, and at other times be too low, it all depends on the TV set. There are lots of other bits'n'bobs to play with on nvidia cards, but I

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Andreas Fürtig
when i try to load you settings, i only get ERROR: Error querying valid values for attribute 'TVOverScan' on 0:0.0 specified on line 42 of configuration file '/etc/freevo/nvidia-settings' (Attribute not available). and some other errors. why isnt overscan available for me? maybe

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Karl Lattimer
Looks to me like this is not available on gf2 cards. Why not pick up a gf4mx440 for around 25£. You may even be able to get a cheaper one via ebay. Your driver is the newest version, There is also the option of contacting the nvidia linux developers they are very helpful and the forums

[Freevo-users] Using FreeVo With ComCast digital Cable

2005-07-14 Thread Kichigai Mentat
I'm considering making a FreeVo box of my own, but there are two concerns I have. First is my digital cable box. Since I use ComCast Digital Cable, I am required to use the ComCast Digital Cable Box to view anything on Digital Cable. Is there some trick for FreeVo to get around this? I

Re: [Freevo-users] Problems with Geforce2 MX and TV-Out

2005-07-14 Thread Andreas Fürtig
ok, thank you for your help i think, ill be me a new card. my problem is, that the geforce4 has its own cooler, so it will be very loud. do you know a good card, with good tvout, cheap and silent? only need the card for tv-out. dont play anything or something like this... bye andieh On