[mythtv-users] Oops - Anyone Succesful with AMD780G basedmotherboard?

[Craig G.]

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: Mark Goldberg
>To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
>Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:59 AM
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Oops - Anyone Succesful with AMD780G 
>basedmotherboard?
>
>
>Yes, lots of info that looks like it works, but it crashes the X
>server immediately when glxinfo, myth front end or
>Catylyst Control center is run, and crashes after a minute or two and
>restarts in endless cycles. No obvious
>explanations in the logs either.

Am running a ECS 780G board with ubuntu 8.04 and the latest ATI proprietary 
driver.   When ever I tried to run mythfrontend I got a segfault.   I can't 
find the link where I found the information but in one of the forums an 
supposed ATI tech said that the new ATI cards no longer have traditional 
video overlay but are doing "TexturedVideo" overlays.   He/she recommened 
the following:

Section "Device"
Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
Driver      "fglrx"
Option      "TexturedVideo" "on"
Option      "TexturedVideoSync" "on"
Option     "VideoOverlay" "off"
Option     "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
EndSection

Adding the TexturedVideo options and turning videooverlay and opengloverlay 
off, gives me perfect HDTV and SDTV playback.   I set mythtv to use XVMC as 
the mpeg library.  Have bios set to allow video card to have 128mb of memory 
and have 4gb of memory in the box.  I originally tried turning videooverlay 
off and opengloverlay off and it allowed me to play video using "standard" 
and "libmpeg" renderers but system couldn't keep up with frame rate.   The 
addition of the TexturedVideo entries got me up and running.

Hope that might be of some help to someone.

Craig