[mythtv-users] Preview pane in wrong place

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Wed May 31 21:42:06 UTC 2006


On 05/31/2006 05:37 PM, Gordon Ross wrote:
> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>>>> Broken video card drivers.  Nothing Myth can do...
>>> 'Fairy snuff :-(
>> so I just wanted to follow up to say it
>> doesn't mean you can't use MythTV.  It just means you can't really use
>> the "preview".  For the Watch Recordings page, turn off:
>>     
>
> I've been doing a bit of digging, and it appears that my machine is using 
> a generic VESA driver. I'm gonna try and install a "proper" ATI driver for 
> my laptop so I can (hopefully) get XVideo support. I'm hoping it might 
> also drop the CPU useage down a bit as well (Currently running at 75% CPU 
> Util on a dual-core 1.8GHz CPU - and that's just the front end)

An even better solution.  I saw it was a laptop, so I knew you may not 
have many choices as far as drivers go, but it sounds like there's still 
hope.  Best of luck getting it working.

Mike


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