Graphics card confusion

[leg]

I am a little confused about what capabilities my graphics card actaully has. It is an old card now and it is an XFX geforce 5200 card. XFX is a company related to nvidia and essentially the card is a geforce FX 5200. This card has an tv ariel plug on it and I thought I could use it to set up mythtv. Now I can't seem to get it to work and I am not sure if it is because the card is to old to be using or if the ariel is for pushing video signal from my card to a tuner or that I simply don't understand this properly. Can anyone clear this up for me.

[wolfen69]

you won't be able to watch tv without a tv tuner card. your video card comes with a s-video out jack that is just for doing computer stuff on a monitor/tv that has a s-video connection.

[rtz2rbbl]

alright, so im new to ubuntu and to the forum. but i downloaded the drivers for my graphics card so i can use compiz fusion, and now no matter what resolution i set it at, everything is far to large for the screen. any ideas on how to help??

[leg]

you won't be able to watch tv without a tv tuner card. your video card comes with a s-video out jack that is just for doing computer stuff on a monitor/tv that has a s-video connection.So my card does not have a tuner and the jack I am talking of is for pushing graphics to a tv from the card.

[wolfen69]

So my card does not have a tuner and the jack I am talking of is for pushing graphics to a tv from the card.

yes

[wolfen69]

alright, so im new to ubuntu and to the forum. but i downloaded the drivers for my graphics card so i can use compiz fusion, and now no matter what resolution i set it at, everything is far to large for the screen. any ideas on how to help??

try sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg then restart x or reboot.

[leg]

yesI see you have the haupauge pvr 150 in your signature and I have heard a lot about the [123]50 cards from them. Would you consider them to be the best cards for the job.

[rtz2rbbl]

ok, so my graphics card troubles continue. today, without doing anything to my monitor or the computer im having new troubles. i turn on the computer and everything works fine until i log on, then for some reason it says "cannot display this video mode". the monitor is a VGA Dell flat screen and i have a DVI to VGA adapter.

[rtz2rbbl]

scrap that last one. i got everything working

[overdrank]

scrap that last one. i got everything working

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