Flickery Video FX5200

[eejut]

Hi

I have an Albatron Fx5200, 128MB card that I am running under Fedora Core 2 (custom 2.6.6 Kernel).

When I have TV out enabled, the video output (from mplayer and xine) tends to flicker during panning. If I only have output on the computer screen then it is fine.

Anybody got any hints on what I can tweak to avoid this problem?

Thanks
C

[toz]

I had the same problem with my FX5600.
Do you have twinview or two separate X screens ??
The problem is that only the first device in the XF86Config-file have "hardware accelerated video overlay"
One device is your TV-out and on is the VGA-out.

I solved it by having the TV setup as primary device in the config file.
Watching a movie on the vga monitor is not as sensetive as the tv when it comes to "video overlay" at least thats my experience.

I post my XFConfig if you would like to try it.
I use a bash-script called "tv" to view movies on the tv that looks like this:

**************************START tv********************

#!/bin/bash
DISPLAY=:0.1 /usr/bin/xine -n --auto-play=fhq "$1"::"$2"

**************************END tv**********************


My XF86Config. whit monitor set to 1600x1200@85Hz
and TV to 720x572 (Pal):

**************************START XF86Config***********************

Section "Module"

Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
Load "extmod"

SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA extension
EndSubSection

Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "speedo"
Load "glx"

EndSection



Section "Files"

RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/"

EndSection


Section "ServerFlags"



EndSection




Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc102"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbLayout" "se"

EndSection


Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection



Section "Monitor"

Identifier "LG915FT"
HorizSync 30 - 107
VertRefresh 50-200


EndSection


Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Panasonic"
Modeline "720x576" 32.58 720 736 880 896 576 578 579 606


EndSection


Section "Device"

Identifier "GeForceFX5600_TV" # VGA"
Driver "nvidia"
BusId "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "NVagp" "3"
Option "HWCursor" "0"
Option "SWCursor" "1"
Option "CursorShadow" "Off"
Option "RenderAccel" "On"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
Option "TVOutFormat" "Composite"
Option "TVOverScan" "0.7"
Screen 0

EndSection


Section "Device"

Identifier "GeForceFX5600_VGA"
Driver "nvidia"
BusId "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "NVagp" "3"
Option "HWCursor" "0"
Option "SWCursor" "1"
Option "CursorShadow" "Off"
Option "RenderAccel" "On"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
Screen 1

EndSection

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Skrivbord_VGA"
Device "GeForceFX5600_VGA"
Monitor "LG915FT"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"

Depth 24
Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

EndSubsection

EndSection


Section "Screen"

Identifier "Skrivbord_TV"
Device "GeForceFX5600_TV"
Monitor "Panasonic"
DefaultDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "720x576"
EndSubsection

EndSection


Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "Simple Layout"

Screen 0 "Skrivbord_VGA"
Screen 1 "Skrivbord_TV" rightOf "Skrivbord_VGA"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"

EndSection

**************************END XF86Config***********************


Good Luck.

[eejut]

Well I got home from work and fired up the new config and it now runs as sweet as

toz u r the man I owe you are beer!