[mythtv-users] Radeon Xpress 1250, usable with Myth?

[Paul Gardiner]

Greg Newton wrote:
> I'd recommend dropping the 8400 in - I have a gigabyte mobo with the
> Radeon X1250 (not the same thing) and couldn't get it working
> satisfactorily for DVB-T HD (1080p). The open source drivers haven't
> yet got video acceleration
> (http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/RadeonFeature) - the Xpress 1250 is
> RS600 in that table (according to wikipedia
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_graphics_processing_units)
> so textured Xv is "WIP" and textured XvMC is still "ToDo". YMMV -
> particularly if the proprietary drivers are any better.

I think XV worked for me, although I can't remember if I checked
the logs for whether it fell back to a different method. I'll do
my best to check again sometime soon. Certainly development of
the radeon driver is very active. Sometimes worth going to
git master for that reason.

Cheers,
	Paul.