[mythtv-users] Recycled PC as a frontend- disapointment?
J. Scott
jscott at oddpost.com
Fri Mar 18 03:12:02 UTC 2005
Thanks for the help on this, guys. I installed the Gatos drivers and now the video on my Celeron 466 machine is perfect.
-----Original Message from Shawn Flynn <shawn at shawnflynn.com>-----
> When I run lspci I get the following
>
> VGA Compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (Rev 7a)
> There is no entry in the XFree86.0.log for:
> (II) Loading extension XVideo
>
> The output of xvinfo is:
> "no adaptors present"
>
> I checked out the gatos site, but wasn't clear what to do with the info
> there.
Yep. You'll need to install the gatos ati.2 drivers in order to get Xv to
work on that setup. I have a similar machine that I press into service every
once in a while. It's a Celeron 500 with an onboard ATI RageIIc. It played
video at 1 frame per second until I installed the gatos drivers. Now it's
capable of playing 480x480 mpg4 nuv files in Myth without dropping frames.
To install the binary drivers, go to http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php
and follow the instructions under the "Installing ati.2 binaries" heading.
It's as simple as downloading the appropriate tarball, unpacking it to the
correct location and restarting X. If I can do it, anyone can :-)
Shawn Flynn
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