[mythtv-users] TV Out on the dreaded Raedeon card

[cmisip]

so the open source radeon driver which is part of the XFree86 release
has tv out capabilities supported and works with mythtv .11 (with the
pchdtv problems).

and the fglrx driver does have tv out but does not work with mythtv
.11.  This is with the 9800 radeon. 

Please correct me If I am wrong.

I just want to be as informed as possible before that 300 dollar
investment.  Currently weighing wether to get a geforce 5900 (upgrade
should be painless ) versus an ati 9800 (faster gaming). TV out with
MythTV is what is important to me for Linux, and 3D acceleration in
Windows.




On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 18:32, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
> On Friday, Oct 17, 2003, at 16:23 US/Pacific, cmisip wrote:
> 
> >> When using the fglrx driver, the frontend didn't crash, per se. I was
> >> never able to view any video, and got a black screen, with the same X
> >> error message repeated several times a second in the terminal window
> >> from which I launched the frontend. I can't recall if I was able to
> >> cleanly exit or not. With the radeon driver, I didn't have the 
> >> problem,
> >> but it has its own issues w/1920x1080 sources (I'm told it is an Xv
> >> scaling bug in the driver).
> >>
> >> --Jarod
> >
> > The fglrx driver is available from the ati website for the ati radeon
> > 9800.
> 
> It also works with several other cards, but yes.
> 
> > What other radeon driver are you talking about with the scaling
> > bug.
> 
> The other Radeon driver I'm talking about is the radeon driver. Note 
> the capitalization. The open-source, included w/XF86 driver, for ATI's 
> Radeon-series cards is the "radeon" driver, as opposed to ATI's own 
> "fglrx" driver.
> 
> > If my source is cable tv, will it work ( I dont have HDTV anyway)
> > with the TV out?
> 
> You won't be subject to the particular issues I was having w/my pcHDTV 
> card, so in theory, it should work, but as always, ymmv...
> 
> --Jarod