[mythtv-users] Is NVIDIA worth the bother?

[Tom Flair]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Tim McKenzie <tjm1983 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:33:29 Mark Garland wrote:
> > > How long ago were you testing those drivers (and how old were
> > > they at the time)?
> >
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > This would have been at about May-June of this year.
> > I'll admit that I was still relatively new to Linux and Myth,
> >  but from memory the proprietary drivers would lock the system
> >  and the open source ones would either look really promising
> >  and tear badly or would give a really lousy frame rate that
> >  looked 'computerish'.
> >
> > Take a look at
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/389978?nohig
> > hlight=1#3899 78
>
> Thanks for that.  Having read through it, the only comments you
> made specifically about the video drivers were that the
> proprietary one caused tearing, the radeonhd one gave "pretty bad
> performance", and the radeon one gave "pretty good results".
>
> > and for when I solved it..
> >
> > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/390906?nohig
> > hlight=1#3909 06
> >
> > Hope that helps,
>
> Yeah; the reason I'm interested is that I'm thinking of buying a
> board with the 780G, so I'm trying to inform myself about it.  I'm
> willing to accept the possibility that I'll need to buy a separate
> graphics card to get MythTV to work adequately, but I'll try it
> with the built-in graphics first.  Other reports indicate that
> it's a good board in other respects, and it's not too expensive,
> so it's probably worth it either way.
>
> Tim
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I've had great luck in recent months with an HD3200 (780G) and an HD3300
(790G) on two different boards.  With the 1.2.5 RadeonHD release, I've had
perfect playback with HDMI audio.  I'm wary about trying out the newer
GIT/SVN releases due to WAF, but I understand that there are even more
improvements.

At present, I would whole-heartedly recommend an ATi Card over nVidia for
linux.
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