[mythtv-users] pundit-r working tvout and opengl (finally!)

[Andrew Cope]

Steven wrote:
> Not a sollution for the faint of heart but I finally got fed up enough
> with the fglrx ati driver after xvideo only showed top half of the
> screen after upgrade to xorg 6.9.
> 
> The solution is switching to the opensource driver that comes with xorg.
> This doesn't have tvout working for the 9100 IGP (and neither does the
> tvout patch from gatos) but I got out the soldering iron and made a VGA
> to SCART cable that gives me great results on the tv.
> 
> If you would like to try it yourself :
> 
> Info on the cable : http://ryoandr.free.fr/english.html
> 
> Modeline for PAL :  
> Modeline "720x576PAL" 15.125 720 770 842 968 576 579 607 625 Composite
> Interlace
> 
> The device section in my xorg.conf file :
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Option     "ForceMinDotClock" "15MHz"   # <freq>
>         Identifier  "Card0"
>         Driver      "ati"
>         VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
>         BoardName   "Radeon 9100 IGP"
>         BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> My glxgears results :
> /usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears
> 12680 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2535.889 FPS
> 12685 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2536.857 FPS
> 
> So finally opengl foto transitions and fading menu's :-)
> 
> Steven


Very cool, but I have a faint heart.

How much would you charge for making up one of those VGA/audio to SCART
cables?

I'm getting close to putting in a PCI nvidia card in my Pundit-R to get
around the problem ... but you've just given me hope!

Cheers
Andrew
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