GForce 4 Video Out and In help?

[Matthew Carpenter]

Thanks, Frederico and Roger.

I'll check out rivatv (which appears to be a V4L driver module)
I'll also try the 1024/768 V-OUT.  
Along the same lines:  RDesktop was recently giving me fits about not
operating below 8bpp, when I was at 1280x1024x15bit.  Taking it to
1024x768x16bit worked, so I tried 1280x1024x16bit and it works.  Perhaps their
algorithm for bpp calculation or testing is buggy.


On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 11:33:17 -0300
"Federico Voges" <fvoges at intrasoft.com.ar> wrote:

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> On Wed, 2 Jul 2003 00:01:43 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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> >I just purchased the GF4Ti4200 with my new machine (which I'm most pleased
> >with)
> >
> >I'd like some input on tricks to get this sucker working the best.  I knew
> >it had video out.  Video In was a bonus I didn't expect (if only it works).
> >
> >Video Out shows up my boot to the TV...  But as soon as X starts, the TV
> >becomes an Orange mess of lines.  I've tried changing modes (CTRL-ALT-+)
> >but all that I see is some rearranging of what little black is left on the
> >TV.  This is inconvenient.  Obviously it'd make me the happiest if this
> >would be viewable even when I'm at 1280x1024 (I like to live there most the
> >time) but I'd settle for 640x480.  (Note:  SuSE includes this great little
> >tool which lets you set your resolution on the fly... very nice indeed)  I
> >also wouldn't complain if the TV could be set up as an extension of my
> >desktop, not a clone.  I've seen the nvtv utility and plays just a little. 
> >No luck other than killing the feed to my CRT. Yes, I'm using GLX and the
> >NVidia accelerated driver.  DRI is another question I'm not sure of.
> >
> Just read de README for the nvidia GLX driver. You should have it
> somewhere in your disk (something like /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/),
> or you can download the tar.gz from nVidia's site (ie:
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4363.tar.gz). You'll find all the info you need there. 
> 
> The chipset supports TV out up to 1024x768.
> 
> >Video In I haven't tried much with yet.  All I know is that SuSE didn't
> >detect it so it's probably not one of the BTTV chipset.  The manual calls
> >is WDM or something or other.  Anyone have any luck with this one?   I
> >remember reading recently on this list that someone said they'd stick with
> >NVidia for all of their video capture needs.  I'd love to as well, since my
> >other option is to migrate my ATI TVWonder VE card (Walmart: $45) from my
> >old machine to this one.  Not elegant, but doable, and it's a BTTV chipset.
> >
> 
> My vid card doesn't have TV-in, but a quick search in Gentoo Forums
> revealed that you need RivaTV (http://rivatv.sourceforge.net):
> 
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29290&highlight=gf4+tvin
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