[mythtv-users] new ati driver and pundit-r tvout, still no go

[Brad Templeton]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:30:05AM -0500, Dan Wilga wrote:
> At 8:20 AM +0100 1/20/05, Steven wrote:
> >Tried it but the TV-out still doesn't work on the pundit's 9100IGP.
> >Save yourselves some time and keep using the old version that you could
> >get to work with the hex-edit trick.
> 
> Sigh. I have downloaded the driver, but not had a chance to try it 
> yet. I guess it's too much to ask that ATI would actually fix the bug 
> that causes the hex edit hack to be necessary, after only three 
> revisions. (I was able to figure out which bytes to patch in the last 
> version, so I may be able to do the same in this one; I'll probably 
> get to it this weekend.)
> 
> Of course, unless this version fixes the lack of a reliable vsync 
> method, it will still cause Myth to do lots of "prebuffering pauses", 
> and will therefore be useless.

So where does this  leave us with cards to drive at 1080i/DVI?   The
open source drivers don't work for the ATI cards.   The nvidia cards
won't do 1080i/DVI, and even out the VGA there are many reported
problems (crashes, xvideo failing and needing reboot to work).  I
have also had problems getting Sis and Unichrome on-board video to
work with 1080i, though they work at 720p.

What does work?