DVD Playback and nVidia cards

Keith Clark wrote:
GeoW wrote:

It's probably different for different cards. The GF3 ti200 uses a
Conextant BT868 for TV out. The latest driver I can use without 3rd
party intervention is the 40.72's, and I've tried them all. It would
be nice if Nvidia just let us disable the TV-out in setup somewhere
so it wouldn't be an issue.

Have you tried playing DVD's in Linux with these cards?

It's not a rhetorical question, as I plan to use one (Ti4200 based)
on Linux soon myself (dual boot Win2K/RedHat 9).

No, I haven't played with Linux for about a year. If all I did was surf and
email it would have worked just fine, but I wasn't impressed with the gaming
options on Linux, outdated man pages, and lack of workable drivers for some
peripherals I had. I may pick it up again, but no current plans to. I
remember that the Nvidia drivers that came with the original dist worked
fine until it came time to update, then I couldn't get the newer drivers to
work. It finally sat on my hard drive for months unused until I recovered
the partitions for windows use.

GeoW wrote:

Keith Clark wrote:
GeoW wrote:

It's probably different for different cards. The GF3 ti200 uses a
Conextant BT868 for TV out. The latest driver I can use without 3rd
party intervention is the 40.72's, and I've tried them all. It would
be nice if Nvidia just let us disable the TV-out in setup somewhere
so it wouldn't be an issue.

Have you tried playing DVD's in Linux with these cards?

It's not a rhetorical question, as I plan to use one (Ti4200 based)
on Linux soon myself (dual boot Win2K/RedHat 9).

No, I haven't played with Linux for about a year. If all I did was surf and
email it would have worked just fine, but I wasn't impressed with the gaming
options on Linux, outdated man pages, and lack of workable drivers for some
peripherals I had. I may pick it up again, but no current plans to. I
remember that the Nvidia drivers that came with the original dist worked
fine until it came time to update, then I couldn't get the newer drivers to
work. It finally sat on my hard drive for months unused until I recovered
the partitions for windows use.

A lot has happened in a year... :-

Keith Clark wrote:
GeoW wrote:

Keith Clark wrote:

Have you tried playing DVD's in Linux with these cards?

It's not a rhetorical question, as I plan to use one (Ti4200 based)
on Linux soon myself (dual boot Win2K/RedHat 9).

No, I haven't played with Linux for about a year. If all I did was
surf and email it would have worked just fine, but I wasn't
impressed with the gaming options on Linux, outdated man pages, and
lack of workable drivers for some peripherals I had. I may pick it
up again, but no current plans to. I remember that the Nvidia
drivers that came with the original dist worked fine until it came
time to update, then I couldn't get the newer drivers to work. It
finally sat on my hard drive for months unused until I recovered the
partitions for windows use.

A lot has happened in a year... :-

I'm sure it has. Like I said, I may play with it again, just haven't gotten
around to it, and no real reason to as I pretty much have everything working
the way I want it to on XP.

GeoW wrote:

Keith Clark wrote:
GeoW wrote:

Keith Clark wrote:

Have you tried playing DVD's in Linux with these cards?

It's not a rhetorical question, as I plan to use one (Ti4200 based)
on Linux soon myself (dual boot Win2K/RedHat 9).

No, I haven't played with Linux for about a year. If all I did was
surf and email it would have worked just fine, but I wasn't
impressed with the gaming options on Linux, outdated man pages, and
lack of workable drivers for some peripherals I had. I may pick it
up again, but no current plans to. I remember that the Nvidia
drivers that came with the original dist worked fine until it came
time to update, then I couldn't get the newer drivers to work. It
finally sat on my hard drive for months unused until I recovered the
partitions for windows use.

A lot has happened in a year... :-

I'm sure it has. Like I said, I may play with it again, just haven't gotten
around to it, and no real reason to as I pretty much have everything working
the way I want it to on XP.

Understood. I probably won't use any more Microsoft OS'es at home past Win2K.
Linux does everything I want with a few exceptions (yeah, like games). I find I
can make DivX movies faster, smaller, with higher quality under Linux so I use
it a lot. DVD playback works really well with the Ogle player.

--Keith