[mythtv-users] Modelines/Video timings

[Jarod C. Wilson]

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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 15:21, Curtis Wood wrote:
>    This may be a stupid question - but I noticed that the 960x540p mode
> is actually switching the tv to 1080i, does that make since? I figured
> it would be 540....

Yep, makes perfect sense. 540p is electronically equivalent to 1080i. (Covered 
in-depth on AVSForum.com ;-)

>    On the drivers - I heard some intersting things about gatos, but it
> is VERY shaky with v4l, you have to do an ugly work around to get things
> going (last time I checked). I havent tried the radeon driver - had good
> luck with the fglrx, although cant seem to get the 3d accerlation to
> work (GenToo distro).

Huh. I *think* I had 3d acceleration working, but the damned thing kept 
locking up. I managed to fry the Radeon (definitely unrelated to the lockups, 
its a long story), so now that machine has a GF4Ti. ;-p

>    I will check on the avsforum.com - thanx.

No problem, enjoy the reading (there's a TON of stuff there).


> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 16:55, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 January 2004 12:55, Curtis Wood wrote:
> > > Dahh - yeah I didnt think about the diferences in drivers, but who
> > > knows there are more than one driver under linux we can use; maybe one
> > > of them will do the job ;-)...
> >
> > In my experience, the stock X radeon driver is mediocre, while ATI's
> > fglrx driver hard-locked my machine on occasion. Never tried gatos.
> >
> > > BTW - that 960x540 mode you have works for me,
> > > how did you come about getting the timings?
> >
> > Lots and lots and lots of reading on AVSForum.com plus trial and error. I
> > still need to tweak it some more to reduce the overscan, if possible.

- -- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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