[mythtv-users] Enabling Xv on ATI HD 3200

[Kirk Bocek]

Paul Gardiner wrote:
> Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>
>> Ian Clark wrote:
>>> Just looked for some more specific URLs and came across this:
>>>
>>> http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=33 (from here:
>>> http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon)
>>>
>>> Which looks like very good news and perfect timing. :)
>>>
>>> If anyone gets tear free ATI video now I'd love to know, if not I'll pop
>>> my 2600 back in to try it if anyone is interested. Only SD though, I
>>> can't afford a flashy telly! :)
> 
> Yes, I get tear free video.

You confused me Paul. I somehow thought you had abandoned ATI and moved to Nvidia.


>> Following a few links, looks like the radeonhd driver is the one I
>> need an not
>> the older radeon driver:
> 
> No, although radeonhd is supposed to be the one for modern ATI
> chips, it seems to be miles behind the radeon driver which has
> been developed to also handle modern chips and does a great job
> of it.

So this is what I want to look at then:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/

Looks like the current version is 6.12.2. The 6.6.3 in CentOS 5 is looking
pretty old...