[mythtv-users] Nvidia DVI vs ATI

nate s nate.strickland at gmail.com
Mon Dec 27 19:35:31 UTC 2004


Hmmm.  I thought they could do 1080i in other non-free OSes, so I bet
it's not a hardware limitation.  I mean, they say they can do
2048x1526 (or more depending on the card) over vga.  A linux driver
issue is possiable, though (which might include firmware if that is
loaded by the driver.)

I'd give it a try, but I don't yet have a device with a dvi connection.

-Nate


On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 01:05:07 -0800, Brad Templeton
<brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:13:17PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> A thread I read elsewhere suggested there is some actual limitation
> in the hardware at 1600 pixels wide, even though the software is
> claiming it can do wider, thus the bright band on the right hand side.
> 
> Is that what you are getting?
> 
> I don't know if the limitation is firmware or what.  If it's hardware,
> then these cards are no good for 1080i.
> 
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