[mythtv-users] alternative GPU - graphics cards with open source drivers question

[Todd Ignasiak]

On 3/21/06, Jason Weinstein <potuncle at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know this thread is a bit old, but I found this card at newegg:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814272001
>
> It is a "S3 Graphics Chrome S27 128MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card
> - Retail". Could this card be used for Unichrome Pro XvMC in MythTV?
> It is $80 and has S-Video and DVI out.

Check out the OpenChrome project and mailing list.   Ivor, the main
developer, recently got one of those cards and has begun looking into
it.    It's not currently working, but I agree this would be a nice
option to have.

> I know it is only PCI-x, but if it does support XvMC then it may be a
> preferable option to the nVidia cards. The newer nVidia drivers cause
> problems with XvMC and the older drivers that worked well don't work
> with newer kernels. And I believe the newer nVidia cards don't do XvMC
> very well anyway.
>
> - Jason
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