[mythtv-users] Various questions

[Kevin Kuphal]

Mickey Chandler wrote:

> At 02:10 PM 9/22/2005, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> >Video card.  Highly recommend nVidia card of some kind since ATI has
> >poor linux support.
>
> Your mileage may vary on this one.  I'm using an ATI 9200 card in my 
> Myth box and have had excellent results with livna keeping the ATI 
> fglrx rpm package up to date with the kernel.  I'm running 
> 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 and have a current fglrx build in place.
>
> On the other hand, if you insist on compiling from source, then yes, I 
> also thought that ATI was a bit slow off the blocks to start 
> supporting the 2.6 kernels (although I think this was more of a 
> problem with the changing to the newer GCC version than the kernel 
> itself).  I will also note that if you're trying to go completely OSS 
> with your Myth box then the ATI drivers aren't for you (as witnessed 
> by the "fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI 
> Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel." line you'll find in 
> dmesg after boot up).

I think the big thing is that ATI does not support XvMC at all which, 
for some systems, maybe the only way for them to get hardware MPEG-2 
decoding in order to playback HDTV content effectively.

Kevin