[mythtv-users] Radeon 8500 hdtv questions...

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/14/06, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Monday 13 February 2006 14:45, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > A friend of mine had a spare Radeon 8500 laying around and let me
> > borrow it to see if I can get it to play with my HDTV better than my
> > nvidia card is.
>
> Good luck. I've personally found Radeon cards to be complete and total crap
> w/HDTV, though its been a while. Couldn't ever get a Radeon 9200 Pro to work
> worth a damn with the fglrx, radeon or gatos drivers -- different problems
> with each one of them.
>
> > So I got the drivers installed and everything, but so far I can't
> > figure out how to get it to output an HDTV signal to my tv through its
> > DVI port. I was using my nvidia card this way, and even tried the
> > modeline I was using with no luck.
>
> Which driver are you using? The fglrx driver includes some utilities for
> setting up custom modelines, maybe that's the ticket...

Jarod, right as usual, I gave up. It took me about an hour to get the
drivers working, and when I did, I have no idea what I did to get it
to work. I couldn't get it to read custom modelines, it would ONLY use
modelines it created automatically, it didn't even seem to acknowledge
the xorg.conf file, loading extensions at its whim... So I tried to
downgrade to the next olderversion I could find. No go, from that
point on I could never get the driver to load properly.

It amazes me that a bunch of random computer scientists can write
properly working opensource drivers in a matter of months yet big bad
ATI can barely put out crud in the year or two they've been writing
the driver... back to nVidia, time to bite the bullet and buy a 5200.

--
Steve