[mythtv-users] pundit-r working tvout and opengl (finally!)

[Steven]

Not a sollution for the faint of heart but I finally got fed up enough
with the fglrx ati driver after xvideo only showed top half of the
screen after upgrade to xorg 6.9.

The solution is switching to the opensource driver that comes with xorg.
This doesn't have tvout working for the 9100 IGP (and neither does the
tvout patch from gatos) but I got out the soldering iron and made a VGA
to SCART cable that gives me great results on the tv.

If you would like to try it yourself :

Info on the cable : http://ryoandr.free.fr/english.html

Modeline for PAL :  
Modeline "720x576PAL" 15.125 720 770 842 968 576 579 607 625 Composite
Interlace

The device section in my xorg.conf file :

Section "Device"
        Option     "ForceMinDotClock" "15MHz"   # <freq>
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "ati"
        VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
        BoardName   "Radeon 9100 IGP"
        BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection


My glxgears results :
/usr/X11R6/bin/glxgears
12680 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2535.889 FPS
12685 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2536.857 FPS

So finally opengl foto transitions and fading menu's :-)

Steven