[mythtv-users] new ati driver and pundit-r tvout, still no go
Brad Templeton
brad+myth at templetons.com
Thu Jan 20 13:04:05 EST 2005
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:30:05AM -0500, Dan Wilga wrote:
> At 8:20 AM +0100 1/20/05, Steven wrote:
> >Tried it but the TV-out still doesn't work on the pundit's 9100IGP.
> >Save yourselves some time and keep using the old version that you could
> >get to work with the hex-edit trick.
>
> Sigh. I have downloaded the driver, but not had a chance to try it
> yet. I guess it's too much to ask that ATI would actually fix the bug
> that causes the hex edit hack to be necessary, after only three
> revisions. (I was able to figure out which bytes to patch in the last
> version, so I may be able to do the same in this one; I'll probably
> get to it this weekend.)
>
> Of course, unless this version fixes the lack of a reliable vsync
> method, it will still cause Myth to do lots of "prebuffering pauses",
> and will therefore be useless.
So where does this leave us with cards to drive at 1080i/DVI? The
open source drivers don't work for the ATI cards. The nvidia cards
won't do 1080i/DVI, and even out the VGA there are many reported
problems (crashes, xvideo failing and needing reboot to work). I
have also had problems getting Sis and Unichrome on-board video to
work with 1080i, though they work at 720p.
What does work?
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