[mythtv-users] Full screen corruption with fglrx

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Hans Houwaard <hans at ginder.xs4all.nl>wrote:

> I too have problem with the fglrx driver. It seems I'm stuck on this driver
> untill AMD frees up the cards details, so a fully functionaly open driver
> can be build. I have used the --geometry fix to get the full screen output
> corrected, I have a fix in place in .xprofile to set the screen to the full
> size, instead on the overscan corrected size with black borders.
>
> This all seems to work now, except for video corruption in TV. The first
> channel get displayed correctly, the next channel that's  changed to has a
> high chance to be displayed all carbled, with deinterlacing all on top of
> eitherother or with a complete garbled output. Leave TV with Esc and
> reentering it gives the correct display.
>
> Had anyone been able to fix these issues? It is highly annoying.
>
>
The usual solution, as others have noted, is to throw in an nvidia card and
wait for ATI to one day solve their driver problems.  This has worked great
me, but of course it requires a free slot.  (In my case it got a little
tricky, because I wanted a low-profile fanless nvidia card with both DVI and
s-video/composite outputs, to work with my existing CRT TVs as well future
HDTV upgrades.)

Jim
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