[mythtv-users] Tv-out with ati rage fury pro

[Louis Adamich]

I'm checking out the xfree86 4.4 tree right now.  Gatos has a port to 
4.4 in CVS so I checked that out too.  It is probably going to take me a 
while to build it all but I will let the group know how it goes.


Louis

Cory Papenfuss wrote:

>     I was wondering about that.  It's kinda a fly in the ointment of 
> my mythtv upgrade, since I was using a r128 card.  I'd like to try to 
> use the tvout on an old Mach64 if it doesn't suck too horribly, but 
> gatos doesn't go on x.org yet.  Good things are afoot?
>
> -Cory
>
>
> *************************************************************************
> * Cory Papenfuss                            *
> * Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
> * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University             *
> *************************************************************************
>
>
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Stephen Tait wrote:
>
>> At 14:54 09/09/2004, you wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if someone could point me into the right direction 
>>> to get acceptable performance with tv-out on my rage fury pro.  
>>> Currently I can get tv-out using the s-video port and the frame 
>>> buffer driver but running mythfrontend complains about no XV and the 
>>> performance is pitiful on the TV.  If I use the standard r128 driver 
>>> and a monitor then performance is, of course, fine.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any assistance,
>>>
>>> Louis
>>
>>
>> This sounds like something in the realm of GATOS 
>> http://gatos.sourceforge.net/, namely advanced open source drivers 
>> for ATI cards, much better performance-wise than the inbuilt XFree ones.
>>
>> What's great news is that now x.org has forked from XFree86, the 
>> author of the GATOS project has now been given CVS access to x.org, 
>> so we should see GATOS become an integral part of X within a few months
>
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