Hello all again,

Sorry to be a pain, my setup is going along ok but i have some problems that i am working though in order of importance.

The next one is strange, to me anyway, the color and foucs of the image put to the CRT monitor when the 'Option "ConnectMonitor" "TV" ' is commented out is perfect but when you remove the comment and turn on the 'tv out' of the MX440 video card the colour goes a bit funny and the foucs goes out.

I am running this though the front av inputs on a sony trinatron 68m tv.

I assume that you have to adjust the resfresh rates or screen rez? and i think that it is done in the /etc/x11/xf86cong-4 file. but i would like to get some advice so that i dont put a to higher signal to the tv and stuff it. (is that poss?)

so what do i need to adjust?

some of the other problems are
ripping wont do anything
Live tv what tune but recording does

I will post these as i get to them

Chris

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Perhaps you need to specify card and tuner type?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Sorry about that, i guess you need that little bit of info.

P3-1gig
512meg ram
80 gig hdd
MX440 tv out
Winfast tv2000xp
annlog tv signal


Sorry again.

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No problem. You probably need to specify what card and tuner you have. Take a look at:http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=31
Make a files called /etc/modutils/User and place the values in there. Somethings like:


34 is for the Winfast, you'll probably need to take a closer look at the card to find out what tuner it is... once you have the file created update-modules and reboot.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

my leadtek card I use

options bttv card=34 tuner=2 radio=1

I also used to use gbuffers=8 but I don't think I have that in there now and it works fine.

also note we really need to know if it is a 2000xp delux or 2000xp elite( or something like that) the delux is well supported and is what the above lines refer to. the other one uses a different chipset and only has very experimental drivers which I do not believe are even included in knoppmyth.

Thanks again, it would be nice if the was help like this in the windoz world.

The card is a deluxe card.
'winfast tv2000xp deluxe'

SO i think i am getting a better handle on this linux stuff. for me, comming from a windoz world (mcse)it is hard to get a handle on. but as best as i understand it, the update-modules command reads whatis in the /etc/modules dir and adds it to the system startup.
So once i make the file wiht the settings in it and save it in that directory the file will be then read with the update command and then added to the list of modules loaded?

is that close?

Chris

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Ok i did what you guys said.
make the file in the /etc/modutils dir
save it and run update-modules

there was no error reported so i updated the time and rebooted.

but the same thing was happing.
the color is ok but not real sharp, a bit washed out.

for example the x in picture for delete recordings is blured off to the right and a bit dull.

it looks like it is not in focus????? carnt explaine it any better than that.

Any other ideas?

chris

PS on a dedicated server system with a epia m-10000 frontend, how would a twin p3-450,256 or 512 ram & 400gig of space perform?

What would be the max it could do with or with out transcoding????
i would like to get a mix of analog, digital, DVB-s
i would quickly run out of pci slots (6 Ithink) so BTAudio is the go, so i guess that rules out the winfast cards. (I havent found anything on btaudio and the winfast)

PVR2/350 are onbard encoding so they take stuff all in proccessor power but the winfast cards arnt so they will take more power.
the hdtv cards revice in mpeg2 i think, so unless i am transcoding to mpeg4 the usage is minumal.
SO the DVB-s cards what do they record in? do they recive in mpeg2 as well????

i can pick up the dual p3 cheap, but i was wondering if it was worth while, or sould i go mulitpull backends to distribute the load

thanx
(sorry this should go in the hardware section)

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Make sure you change your DefaultDepth in your XF86Config-4 file to 24 instead of 16. That cleared mine right up.

Ok i have copied the info into the file called 'user' (see above post) then ran the update-modules command. But nothing changed.
so i checked the modules.conf file and the changes are in there.

I also checked that 'defultcolordepth' was set to 24. it was.

It looks as if the screen is running in 640x480 is there a way i can tell if the tv out is trying to display 800x600?

CHris

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