[mythtv-users] TV Out on the dreaded Raedeon card

Jarod C. Wilson jcw at wilsonet.com
Wed Oct 15 01:20:34 EDT 2003


On Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003, at 22:43 US/Pacific, Joe Votour wrote:

> Unfortunately, there's just one catch...
>
> According to ATI's website, the new drivers only
> support the Radeon 8500 and higher.  The reason for
> this is that the GPUs used in these cards are very
> similar to those that are used in the FireGL cards.

D'oh. Never mind. I've got a Radeon 9000 Pro, didn't pay enough 
attention.

> This really sucks because I have an original
> All-In-Wonder Radeon (from before the 7500) and I'd
> really like to use it for TV-Out with my MythTV
> machine rather than the GeForce4 440MX that I picked
> up (the picture is much clearer on the ATI card).
>
> The GATOS drivers are the closest that you'll get to
> TV-Out with the Radeon 7500.  And getting them to work
> can be downright difficult, I've tried myself.  I got
> TV-Out working, but couldn't get MythTV to work
> without crashing (because recompiling your XFree86 can
> cause problems with other programs that rely on it).

Messy... I should add that even though I was able to install and use 
the fglrx drivers w/my Radeon 9000 Pro, it wouldn't play nice w/the 
pcHDTV...

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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