[mythtv-users] Intel 945GM graphics ok?

Seth Daniel mythtv.org at sethdaniel.org
Tue May 22 13:09:57 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:04:09PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:57:55AM -0700, Seth Daniel wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:26:03AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:43:55PM +0100, Andy Burns wrote:
> > > My TV has RGBHV inputs, so nothing special is required. (I use an NVIDIA
> > > card in my current frontend.)
> > > 
> > > I would prefer to use component, as I can't get 1080i going at 50Hz over
> > > RGBHV. And NVIDIA doesn't support 1080i at 50Hz over component, only
> > > 60Hz. Intel does.
> > 
> > There are Intel graphics cards that can do 1080i?  Properly?  I thought
> > only the nvidia cards could do HDTV resolutions on linux (and even they
> > can't do 1080i well).
> 
> The current Intel Xorg driver has 1080i as a supported TV mode (for
> component output). Presumably it also works on DVI, as I expect that's
> what Jarod is doing with his Mac mini.

Are there actual cards that have this chipset or is it simply
motherboards that come with this chipset?  I searched around looking for
cards and came up empty.

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