[mythtv-users] Nvidia DVI vs ATI

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Fri Dec 24 00:13:17 UTC 2004


On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 12:32:19PM -0800, nate s wrote:
> > But yes, I would like to see DVI working from linux.  I mean I have
> > seen it (With a Radeon 9200se) but the drivers can't go more than 1600
> > wide for xvideo as of now, and the proprietary drivers are limited to
> > older kernels than I have, or so they say..
> 
> I haven't heard anything about ati's drivers not running on new
> kernels.  I'm currently running ati-drivers 3.14.6 on 2.6.9-nitro4

I'm trying to get this working on my machine which was running 3.9.0
just fine; .14.6 is giving me a blue band where the video belongs.

Xvideo is there, according to xdpyinfo; no untoward messages in the
logs; aspect matches properly; could it be putting it on the wrong
display?

Cheers,
-- jra
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