[mythtv-users] ATI Mobility Radeon 7500

Griffon -- bushibot at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 01:25:16 UTC 2005


You might try Knoppmyth I have it running as a front end on an IBM T40
that has an ATI mobility 7500 chipset. Course I can't seem to get the
DVD player to work but video is fine after some HD resolution issues
where sorted out.




On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:46:14 -0800 (PST), Matt Lutz <lutz7755 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>  
> I've been lurking here for a while, and just set up myth for the first time
> this weekend.  I ran into a few problems that I was able to overcome, but
> I'm stuck now with this one thing.  I have a laptop (P4 2Ghz) that I wanted
> to use as a frontend.  The problem is that I can't seem to get it to play
> any video, I just get a blue screen.  When I ran myth and set the
> environment variable to disable xv, it "worked" but the picture was real
> sloppy.  Is there a possibility that my ATI Mobility graphics card simply
> doesn't support it, or have I installed it wrong?  I'm running Fedora 3. 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>  
> oh - I tried installing the gatos drivers, but now X won't come up at all. 
> I'm going to try and re-install X later today.  I'm not sure if that means
> the drivers simply aren't compatible, or if I just did it wrong.
>  
> thanks a lot.
> Matt
>  
> 
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-Griffon


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