PNY verto 4000 MX tvout problems
 

I have a PNY verto 4000 MX 64 MB PCI card in a hp 6545C (500Mhz celeron). The card is working fine with a monitor. Since the verto has svideo out I would like to try to get that working also. I have a really old tv that only has composite in. I have the verto's SVIDEO OUT connected to the VCR VIDEO IN RCA jack and coax from the VCR COMPOSITE OUT to the TV. I have verified the VCR to the TV is working by playing a video tape. I'm using the latest driver from nVidia.com. My linux distribution is Fedora Core 2. Kernel is 2.6.7-1.494.2.2. Most of the googling I have done to find howto's has provided instructions from 2001. Since the driver for linux TVOUT were recently fixed by nVidia, I'm not sure how relevant the 2001 howto's are. This is a test run before building a MythTV box(not on the 6545C).

Anyone have pointer to recent howto's for nVidia tvout? Anyone have a suggestion for a solid tvout video card? I have read that the matrox G400 has the best picture quality.

Thanks for you time,
Nate

I have PNY Verto GeForce4 MX440. It works just fine in Linux. The problem is the TV-Out can only be set to 800x600 max but that seems to be a bug in previous NVIDIA drivers. A new version just came out 4 days ago mentions this bug has been fixed.

You need to configure the file /etc/X11/XF86Config properly. There are many threads in this forum that can help you out.

Here is one place that might be best to serve you.

http://www.sorgonet.com/linux/nv-online/

Hre is something to put in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, section "Device"

Driver "nvidia"
Option "NvAGP" "1"
Option "NoBandWidthTest" "TRUE"
Option "NoPowerConnectorCheck" "TRUE"
Option "Twinview" "TRUE"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" " 30 50"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
Option "MetaModes" "1024x768 , 1024x768"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT , TV"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"

I forgot to mention that if your card has DVI connector then replace CRT with DFP.

This is my XF86Conf part that relates to Display stuff.


Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "HP D5259A Pavilion M70 Monitor"
DisplaySize 320 240
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0
Option "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "PNY VERTO"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX (generic)"
Option "NoLogo"
Option "CursorShadow" "on"
Option "TwinView"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
Option "MetaModes" "1024x768, 1024x768"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "Clone"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT, TV"
Option "TVStandard" "NTSC-M"
Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
VideoRam 65536
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubSection

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Group 0
Mode 0666
EndSection

I tried the website you posted. When I started the xserver after the xorg.conf changes, the monitor went blank and the TV still had the VCR blue screen. I will mess with more tonight.

Thanks for your help,
Nate