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

[Steve Withers]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 08:51 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> 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?

Nvidia binary driver included with Xandros 4.0. 

dmesg says: 

NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module  1.0-8762  Mon May 15
13:06:38 PDT 2006