[mythtv-users] Can't tune all channels; suspect video driver

Harry Devine lifter89 at comcast.net
Sat Nov 8 23:13:53 UTC 2008


Harry Devine wrote:
> John Drescher wrote:
>   
>> These are 2 independent problems. The display problem caused by bad or
>> incompatible ati drivers.
>>
>>  And a driver problem with your analog capture card or your analog
>> capture card was in use.
>>
>> John
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> Well, the ATI drivers were provided by Ubuntu under the "Restricted 
> Drivers" menu.  As for the capture card drivers, I didn't do anything 
> with them.  I thought the kernel had the proper DVB and V4L drivers 
> already.  I'm using an ATI X1200 Radeon integrated card.  Here's my 
> xorg.conf if you're interested:
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
>     Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
>     Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
>     Option        "DPMS" "true"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
>     Driver      "fglrx"
>     BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
>     Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
>     Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
>     DefaultDepth     24
>     SubSection "Display"
>         Viewport   0 0
>         Depth     24
>     EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> When I try to run the ATI installer package, I get:
> Error: ./default_policy.sh does not support version
> default:v2:x86_64:lib32::none:2.6.27-7-generic; make sure that the 
> version is being
> correctly set by --iscurrentdistro
>
> Am I just screwed?
> Thanks,
> Harry
>
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>   
So nothing else on this?  Would it be worth me throwing an nVidia card 
in this box and disabling the on-board ATI video?

Harry



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