[mythtv-users] Oops - Anyone Succesful with AMD780G basedmotherboard?

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On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Craig G. <craig at goranson.org> wrote:
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Mark Goldberg
>>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>>Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:59 AM
>>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Oops - Anyone Succesful with AMD780G
>>basedmotherboard?
>>
>>
>>Yes, lots of info that looks like it works, but it crashes the X
>>server immediately when glxinfo, myth front end or
>>Catylyst Control center is run, and crashes after a minute or two and
>>restarts in endless cycles. No obvious
>>explanations in the logs either.
>
> Am running a ECS 780G board with ubuntu 8.04 and the latest ATI proprietary
> driver.   When ever I tried to run mythfrontend I got a segfault.   I can't
> find the link where I found the information but in one of the forums an
> supposed ATI tech said that the new ATI cards no longer have traditional
> video overlay but are doing "TexturedVideo" overlays.   He/she recommened
> the following:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
> Driver      "fglrx"
> Option      "TexturedVideo" "on"
> Option      "TexturedVideoSync" "on"
> Option     "VideoOverlay" "off"
> Option     "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
> EndSection
>
> Adding the TexturedVideo options and turning videooverlay and opengloverlay
> off, gives me perfect HDTV and SDTV playback.   I set mythtv to use XVMC as
> the mpeg library.  Have bios set to allow video card to have 128mb of memory
> and have 4gb of memory in the box.  I originally tried turning videooverlay
> off and opengloverlay off and it allowed me to play video using "standard"
> and "libmpeg" renderers but system couldn't keep up with frame rate.   The
> addition of the TexturedVideo entries got me up and running.
>
> Hope that might be of some help to someone.
>
> Craig
>
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The 2 important sections in xorg.conf that seem to make mine work or
break are Device and Extensions. Try replacing your sections with mine
and see what results you get. You will most likely have to add the
Extensions section. Make sure the Identifier  tag in Device section
matches your screen section.

Section "Device"
	Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
	Driver      "fglrx"
	Option	    "VideoOverlay" "on"
	Option	    "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
	Option	    "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true"
	Option	    "TexturedVideo" "On"
        ### Set to 1 - better , set to 2 for compability, and 0 for basic
	Option	    "UseFastTLS" "1"
        ### Experimental
	Option	    "Textured2D" "on"
	Option	    "TexturedXRender" "on"
	Option	    "BackingStore" "on"
        ### forced turned off so TextureVideo is used
	Option	    "EnableMonitor" "auto"
EndSection

Section "Extensions"

       ## For Textured2d and Textured XRender
       ### Listed in thread, but not used according to log on Xorg 7.2
       #Option      "Damage" "On"
       # Option      "Composite" "On"
       ## Should be loaded automatically, but for good measure
	Option	    "RENDER" "On"
       ## For Compiz
	Option	    "XVideo" "On"
	Option	    "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection