This isn't your usual black and white issue where someone is trying to run their TV on composite and the TV-out is set to s-video.

I upgraded my parents' mythtv box from an athlon 1200 box to a pentium 4 2.8, hauppauge 250, and a pci-e geforce 6200TC. The geforce card has vga, dvi, and svideo out. After doing a fresh install of R5C7, everything works except for the color. When it boots up, the energy star logo is in color and so is some text during startup. When X starts, bam black and white.

I've gone through XF86-Config-4 and adjusted just about every tv-out option followed by a gdm restart. If I set it to COMPOSITE, the screen goes black when it restarts until I change it back to SVIDEO. NTSC-M is set, and I played with color depth to no avail. The ironic part is that if I misspell an option and X can't start, the frickin error screen telling me it can't load X is all in color.

So I guess I'm hoping that someone has heard of this kind of problem before, or maybe someone can suggest a setting to try and change to fix this. The only other thing I can think of is that the s-video out on the geforce has a total of 7 pins, and my standard s-video cable has 4 pins. Maybe there is a pigtail that gives composite as well as true s-video out? There wasn't any such connector in the box though. Please help!

D'oh! The problem turned out to be a bad s-video cable, and the red herring was that it gave color in everything except X. all is well, and thanks for a kickass program!