[mythtv-users] Need a clue...

[Brian O'Reilly]

On February 8, 2004 08:16 pm, Bruce Markey wrote:
> Brian O'Reilly wrote:
> > I have been using mythtv for a couple of months now, and I really love
> > the features. I have recently acquired an ATI Radeon 7000 card with one
> > VGA connector, and one SVIDEO connector. I've been fighting with the damn
> > thing to get it to display on the television and the screen (even in
> > mirrored mode) with the accelerated driver from the gatos project.
>
> "Accelerated"! Ooooh, aaaaaah! ;-) That's a new variation on
> needing the more goodlier, specialified, magic GATOS version.

<chuckles> well, 'accelerated' in that it will play the video stream without 
dropping frames, which is more than I can say about the vesa driver... which 
does have the one benefit of 'just working'. =)

> You need to check out the ati.2 branch tagged "devel". If you
> do it will contain the code for tv-out and it will just plain
> work. If you get any other GATOS code characterized anyway
> imagineable, it will not contain the code for TV-out and will
> not work.

I will look at this post-haste. thanks for the pointer. 

> > As this card is a pretty
> > common device in the 'inexpensive' category, I thought asking you folks
> > would garner some advice from somebody with experience on this kind of
> > hardware setup. I have read through almost all of the docs online that
> > seemed relevant to ATI vid cards vis-a-vis X, but haven't had any joy
> > yet. If one of you has an XF86Config-4 file that works for this kind of
> > use, I'd greatly appreciate it.
>
> But you missed the advice above posted many, many times to
> this list =).

Well, for fifteen bucks, I heard "ATI" and "Radeon", saw the SVIDEO port and 
though "SCORE!". Live and learn. =)

Brian