[mythtv-users] More ATI-tvout gatos/retinaburn fun! [OT]

[Brian Kelsay]

I have the ATI Radeon 7000 for the video card.  Do I need dri or glx 
enabled to run mythtv?  The way I read it the stuff at retinalburn.net 
do not apply to me.  To get full functionality of my card I guess I need 
the radeon, glx and dri modules, anything else?
Brian

Bruce Markey wrote:

> Nick Stephens wrote:
> ...
> 
>> See, i was curious about this, because I tried patching the devel gatos
>> source with the retinalburn patch, and it did not apply whatsoever (it 
>> did
>> apply happily to the regular cvs source tho)...  I thought that I saw it
>> say somewhere that i needed the devel code, but like i said, the patch
>> didnt work on it... hence my confusion!
> 
> 
> These are two seperate things.
> 
>>
>>>> i have an ATI card that I'm of course trying to foolishly get to 
>>>> work with
>>>> tvout, and so i was intending to use the patch from retinalburn to 
>>>> try to
>>>> make it work..
>>>
>>>
>>> This site says it is specifically for Mach64 so I don't know
>>> if it will work for other cards. If you can roll back to xfree86
>>> 4.2.x and use the GATOS "devel" branch, I know that has always
>>> worked for me.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hrm, So let me see if I can get this straight... from your experience I
>> need to do the following:
>>
>> grab the XFree86 4.2.x source (not the latest 4.3.x)
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> grab the development branch of Gatos
> 
> 
> Let's be clear here 'cuase this is the major stumbling block.
> 
> Grab the branch tagged "devel". That's D-E-V-E-L . There would
> have been much less confusion if the tag was "tvout" or anything
> that didn't suggest a characterization that leads to incorrect
> assumptions. I don't know if "devel" was intended to be an
> abbrevation of development or not but it doesn't matter. Any
> characterization such as experimental, abandoned, development,
> latest, hidden, don't help get the needed code. Checking out
> the tag with the five letter sequence "devel" will get the
> version that includes tvout support.
> 
>> (at this point do i need to mess with the retinalburn stuff?)
> 
> 
> No. If you had a Mach64 and X 4.3.x you would want to use the
> retinalburn instead of the GATOS "devel" branch.
> 
>> compile Gatos against the XFree86 4.2.x source
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> make install on both
> 
> 
> Sure. However, I actually compile against source from xfree86.org
> then use the X packages for Debian. As long as you compile
> against 4.2 include files and run a version of 4.2 you should
> be okay.
> 
> 
>> ...watch the magic happen? :)
> 
> 
> It flickers a couple times, puts up the X lattice pattern then
> overwrites that with your window manager background. After
> leaving X, the sync is usually messed up for the text mode.
> Therefore, you will probably want to get the tool "atitvout"
> which can reset the text mode.
> 
> Final advice: if this ever mounts up to more than $30 - $40
> worth of frustration, get any cheap nVidia card with tvout
> and chuck the ATI.
> 
> --  bjm