[mythtv-users] Recycled PC as a frontend- disapointment?

[Cory Papenfuss]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, J. Scott wrote:

> When I run lspci I get the following
>
> VGA Compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (Rev 7a)
>
> My XF86Config-4 file has several references to ATI, but nothing more specific than that.
>
> I tried some google searches on the lspci output, but didn't find anything helpful.
>
 	It's certainly not a wonderful card, but I have used something 
similar for a Mythbox.  It does support Xv, although when I was playing 
with it the interlaced driver with Xv was broken.  I had to use the GATOS 
drivers to get around that bug, IIRC.  Check the /var/log/Xorg.0.log to 
see if it contains the line:
(II) Loading extension XVideo

 	Also, check to see that the output of 'xvinfo' displays something 
other than, "No adapters present," or whatever.  Should be lots of stuff 
like:
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
   Adaptor #0: "ATI Radeon Video Overlay"
     number of ports: 1
     port base: 61
     operations supported: PutImage
<snip>
       id: 0x32315659 (YV12)
         guid: 59563132-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
         bits per pixel: 12
         number of planes: 3
         type: YUV (planar)
       id: 0x30323449 (I420)
         guid: 49343230-0000-0010-8000-00aa00389b71
         bits per pixel: 12
         number of planes: 3
         type: YUV (planar)

 	Also worth noting...I've used Celeron-flavord machines before, but 
it was a dual-CPU beast at 450MHz.  You will probably be able to play on a 
single Celeron, but there won't be much left over.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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