[mythtv-users] horizontal split

[Raymond Wagner]

On Nov 23, 2013, at 9:29, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> There is no room beside the graphics card, a tuner card resides there.
>> 
>> And you can't move it?
>> 
>>> Is it necessary to limit the bits of the card to the bits of the
>>> system (64)
>> 
>> No.  The word size on the CPU is not in any way connected to the bus
>> width on the card.
>> 
>>> or would using a 128 bit card eliminate the
>>> "bottlenecking" referenced in the reviews?
>> 
>> For video playback of mpeg2/mpeg4 content, I don't think you'd see any
>> difference at all.  That kind of bandwidth would only be used for 3D
>> gaming.
>> 
>> Eric
> 
> Mobo has only one PCIex1 slot, I could REmove the tuner, obviously not
> an option.
> 
> Back to the original question... I'm using a MSI Radeon HD 5450 and
> getting some tearing when the camera pans.
> would upgrading to the card mentioned above reduce that tearing at all?

If you're having problems with Radeon graphics in Linux, the best solution is typically to switch to something other than a Radeon.