[mythtv-users] Radeon cards and MythTV (was: HVR-1800 can't ...)

[Nick Morrott]

On 09/08/2009, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On 08/09/2009 04:28 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> > [|]01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV630 [Radeon
> HD
> > 2600 Series]
> > Is what my lspci says..
> >
>
>  In my book, Radeon generally equates fail for MythTV usage. There are both
> open and close drivers for them, and neither is fully functional. The open
> drivers are rather lacking in key areas beneficial to MythTV (Xv
> acceleration and/or decoding offload), and the binary drivers haven't worked
> with the latest version of X for the better part of a year now. I haven't
> personally used anything beyond the X1000-series cards, which actually work
> at least reasonably okay with the open-source radeon drivers now. They're
> still less usable than either nVidia (with their binary driver) or Intel
> graphics in my experience though.

Interested to note that Neuros are using an ATI HD3200 in their
current LINK product:

http://www.ddj.com/linux-open-source/219100482
http://wiki.neurostechnology.com/index.php/Neuros_LINK_technical_specifications

I still use ageing Radeon ATI cards in my home systems - but with a
lack of any HD content it's not a problem using the radeon driver with
Xv.

Nick

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