[mythtv-users] Enabling Xv on ATI HD 3200

[Paul Gardiner]

Tom Flair wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Rodney Morris <rodamorris at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rodamorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 4/27/09, Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net
>      >  No, although radeonhd is supposed to be the one for modern ATI
>      >  chips, it seems to be miles behind the radeon driver which has
>      >  been developed to also handle modern chips and does a great job
>      >  of it.
>      >
>      >  Paul.
> 
>     The radeonhd driver also offers tear free Xv for the HD3200 on par
>     with that found in the radeon driver.  The 2d acceleration for radeon
>     and radeonhd were developed at the same time.  The radeonhd 1.2.5
>     release contains the Xv code for the HD3200; however, you'll need to
>     compile the radeon and drm kernel modules from the r6xx-r7xx-support
>     branch of drm git for Xv and EXA to work.  The advantage of radeonhd
>     over radeon is that radeonhd supports hdmi audio.
> 
>     On my FC10 myth box with an HD3200, I've been running the radeonhd
>     from git since the Xv/EXA was being developed and have been satisfied
>     with the results.  Building an up to date radeonhd package containing
>     the latest code should be easy if radheonhd had been previously
>     packaged.
> 
>     Rod
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> 
> I would have to agree with Rodney.  I have had more issues with Mesa 7.4 
> on a brand new build with an HD 3200 than I ever had with the radeonhd 
> drivers.   Once I found a patch for that, everything fell into place.

I've just tried the radeonhd 1.2.5 driver with my X1250, and I'm still
seeing the problems from last time I tried it, whereas the radeon
6.12.2 driver works fine. Clearly others are finding radeonhd works well
for them, so my original statement wasn't accurate, but it's still the
case that people shouldn't assume radeonhd is always going to be a
better option than radeon for later cards/chips.

P.