[mythtv-users] Intel Drivers i810 and/or i915: SOLVED

[R. G. Newbury]

Byron Poland wrote:
> On 10/1/07, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>> stanley kamithi wrote:
>>>> The only oddity I have remaining, is that the OSD displays *behind* the
>>>> recording...
>>>
>>> are you using the chromakey osd ?
>>>
>>> Try disabling chromakey osd if you are using it or upgrade to get
>>> the fix applied in changeset 14555. This issue may happen
>>> if using the chromakey osd and mythtv selects the intel adaptor
>>> that doesn't have xv_colorkey support.
>> I think the box is at 14575 or so. I will try turning off chromakey and
>> see what happens. I am using the i810 driver on Fedora 8rc2 (aka 7.91
>> ). At the moment there is no 915resolution rpm to use with the intel
>> driver (although I saw something on a Ubuntu list from which I inferred
>> that the 915res features have been included in the latest intel driver,
>> but I haven't found any confirmation or instructions.
>>
>> At the moment I am extremely happy with the Core 2 Duo + i810 setup.
>>
>> Geoff
> 
> The intel 2.x series drivers do not need 915resolution.

So now I have to find the man pages to figure out what needs to be 
done...there is now an i915 module way down in /lib/modules, so I 
suppose I modprobe that, but I have no idea how to control it..

Geoff