[mythtv-users] new ati driver and pundit-r tvout, still no go

[Steven]

Dan Wilga schreef:

> 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.

If you have a pundit-r the prebuffer pauses are not really ATI driver 
related but have to do with a bug in the alsa driver for the atiixp 
card. This is fixed in alsa 1.08.

Steven