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

[John P Poet]

On 2/14/06, yan seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
> Steven Adeff wrote:
>
> >I'll keep this in mind. the modelines the 8500 took from my EDID
> >didn't seem to work (why oh gods of electronics, why?!), but perhaps
> >the 9600 will make them work, who knows.
> >I mayhaps buy one of each (9600 and 5200) and see which I end up
> >liking more. I'm really looking for a card that will properly send a
> >1080i signal to my TV via DVI or Component. My tv is native 1080i but
> >I can't get it to read a 1080i signal via DVI with neither the
> >1920x540 modeline given in the EDID or a 1920x1080i signal that I
> >dragged my other computer that has a 5200 in it (PCIX though) to my tv
> >to test. So who knows, I may just need a new HDTV...
> >
> >
>
> The only modeline generator that would generate usable modelines for me
> is videogen...
>
> It's part of debian but I'm sure other distros have it....
>
> I'm still having an issue with my Sharp failing to sync properly  - it
> seems to think I am sending YMC rather than RGB, and I have to
> reconfigre it every time....  Once I get all this mtyh stuff worked out,
> I'll have to bug Sharp tech support about this....
>
> --Yan

This one is my favorite:

http://www.tkk.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/calc.html

John