[mythtv-users] Done with ATI

[Jarod Wilson]

On 08/11/2009 10:40 PM, Stephen Shelton wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:59:47 +0100
> Paul Gardiner<lists at glidos.net>  wrote:
>
>> Stephen Shelton wrote:
>>> I'm done with ATI. The open source drivers look promising, but I'm not going to sit around waiting
>>> for them.
>> Are you referring to the radeon driver? Why the need
>> to wait? Do you have a very new card not yet supported?
>
> I actually have 3 ati cards:
>
> x1650
> hd3200 (onboard)
> hd4350
>
> All three handle 1080i just fine with fglrx except for screen tearing. None can quite cut it with
> either radeon / radeonhd.

I'll buy that playback sucks with the radeon driver on the hd3xxx and 
hd4xxx series cards, since the driver support for even the hd2xxx series 
is pretty immature, but support for the X1xxx series with the radeon 
driver is actually pretty good these days. I can play HDTV material just 
fine using the Radeon driver with both an X1300 and an X1900XT. The cpu 
in the system with the X1300 is just a dual-core 1.8GHz proc, and its 
not working *that* hard.

That said, I'll still take either an nVidia or Intel video chipset over 
an ATI chipset for a MythTV system.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com