[mythtv-users] Various questions
Kevin Kuphal
kuphal at dls.net
Thu Sep 22 19:47:42 UTC 2005
Mickey Chandler wrote:
> At 02:10 PM 9/22/2005, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> >Video card. Highly recommend nVidia card of some kind since ATI has
> >poor linux support.
>
> Your mileage may vary on this one. I'm using an ATI 9200 card in my
> Myth box and have had excellent results with livna keeping the ATI
> fglrx rpm package up to date with the kernel. I'm running
> 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 and have a current fglrx build in place.
>
> On the other hand, if you insist on compiling from source, then yes, I
> also thought that ATI was a bit slow off the blocks to start
> supporting the 2.6 kernels (although I think this was more of a
> problem with the changing to the newer GCC version than the kernel
> itself). I will also note that if you're trying to go completely OSS
> with your Myth box then the ATI drivers aren't for you (as witnessed
> by the "fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI
> Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel." line you'll find in
> dmesg after boot up).
I think the big thing is that ATI does not support XvMC at all which,
for some systems, maybe the only way for them to get hardware MPEG-2
decoding in order to playback HDTV content effectively.
Kevin
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