[nzlug] Help? Video to TV (Linux vs Win98)

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:31:36 +1200
Steve Withers wrote:

> I gave in and set up a Win98SE / Xandros 4.0 dual boot system for use
> with multimedia via the TV/VCR/stereo in the lounge. The TV is the
> monitor for the system and the sound and video are routed through the
> VCR to the stereo....so i can access my computer screen using the remote
> control for the VCR ("Line 1"). 
> 
> The video adapter is an nvidia GF4-mx440 with composite video-out. 
> 
> In the Win98SE environment, I use RealPlayer to put BBC World and CNN on
> the TV - full screen - and it looks just like real TV......my wife was
> watching it today for almost an hour and asked me if I had got Sky and
> why hadn't I asked her..... :-)  
> 
> But on Linux, the video through the VCR 'pulses' roughly every 1-2
> seconds....briGHT, briGHT, briGHT.....and it's damned hard on the eyes. 
> 
> Anyone know what - if anything - I can do to make the linux video behave
> the same as the Win98SE video? 
> 
> It must be a setting of some sort.....as all hardware elements and
> physical connections are the same in both cases.  
> 

What driver are you using?