[mythtv-users] [OT] New ATI drivers just released for Linux (32bit & 64bit)

[Brad Templeton]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:14:26PM -0000, Nick wrote:
> With Xorg 6.8.x support finally...
> 
> http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> 

Would very much like to hear reports of success and failure here.  Having
pounded my head at NVIDIA cards for a while now, it would be nice to
see something from ATI that does what many of us want -- 1080i HDTV, over
DVI or component video, under linux 2.6.

So if you have ATI cards and you try this, could you let us know how
it goes, notably if you are able to run the cards well at 1080i and
720p, and do xvideo on them of 1080i and 720p (and 480i/p) images
without problems with colour or related issues, and what OSs you
make this work under.   Also TV-out for those interested in that.
And if they have introduced support for their proprietary component
video adapter...  (which is $29)

There are some low priced ~$40 Radeon 9200 cards with DVI out that
many folks might switch to if they worked cleanly.    Do a froogle
search for ATI 9200se DVI:

    http://www.google.com/froogle?q=9200se+dvi&btnG=Search+Froogle&scoring=p

This one for $36 with free shipping seems hard to beat:

    http://www.chiefvalue.com/app/productdetails.asp?submit=search&item=14-140-026&ATT=&CMP=


No xvmc support in the driver, though the card has the hardware.