NVIdia 5200 S-Video Problem

[[h]ardc[h]ris]

I shifted around parts of my mythtv setup, and needed a new video card for one of my mythtv frontends. I bought a MSI NVidia 5200FX card (AGP), and put it in the system, and the S-video was black and white (including the bios screen, etc). Which to make matters more interesting, I have a "mad dog" GeForce4 MX440 which exhibits the same problem.

Now, the previous card in the system was a 5200 PCI, which worked fine with the S-Video (same TV, cabling), but I needed to put that card into another machine (re: Dell SC420 ). Another card that I put in there was a ATI 9800 PRO (ATI branded), which worked fine. But, I don't want to waste that card on a non-HDTV HTPC.

So, here is how I break it down:

AGP:
MSI GeForce 5200FX (black and white)
"Mad Dog" GeForce4 MX440 (black and white)
ATI 9800 Pro COLOR!

PCI:
E-VGA GeForce 5200FX COLOR!

How can I get this !#*@)($&)!#!* card to work with SVideo in color (in linux)...?

the hardware setup is as follows:
ASUS P4P533
P4 2.8
Corsair 1GB
2 x PVR-250s
1x PVR-500

 

[Unknown-One]

I had this problem, look in your nVidia controll pannle under "nView"
right click on the TV picture and hunt through the menu's till' you find the type of connection its useing, most likely its on Auto or Composite, manualy change it to S-Video.
Apply, and say hello to color

EDIT: oh, under linux? Hmm, not sure where the connection type is in Linux

 

[CleanSlate]

I bought a MSI NVidia 5200FX card

I'm sorry.

 

[Flo]

Also make sure you have the right TV standard selected. NTSC for North America, PAL for Europe/Australia.