[mythtv-users] Re: Savage IX card...

Dennis Lou dlou99 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 30 17:21:21 EDT 2003


From: "Omer Shenker" <mail at omershenker.net>
>On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:04:18 -0400 Steven Sartorius
>wrote:
>> Anybody know if a (and I'm quoting from the E-bay 
>> description) "Savage IX
>> chipset 8MB AGP Video Card w/ TV-Out " card will
>>work in 
>> MythTV?  They're
>> going for $5.99 on E-bay....
>
>1) Last time I checked, XF86 doesn't support the
>XVideo extension on that
>card, which means video playback will take _much_
>more CPU than it should.

I believe this is incorrect.

I'm on a Savage/IX TV-out
equipped MythTV box right now.

$ xvinfo -display :0
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
  Adaptor #0: "Savage Streams Engine"
    number of ports: 1
    port base: 52
    operations supported: PutImage
    supported visuals:
      depth 24, visualID 0x22
      depth 24, visualID 0x23
etc.

$ lspci -vv
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294
Savage/IX (rev 13) (prog-i
f 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle-
MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step
ping- SERR- FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr-
DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort
- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

 etc.

-Dennis

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