[mythtv-users] Enabling Xv on ATI HD 3200
Kirk Bocek
t004 at kbocek.com
Mon Apr 27 17:25:32 UTC 2009
Paul Gardiner wrote:
> Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>
>> Ian Clark wrote:
>>> Just looked for some more specific URLs and came across this:
>>>
>>> http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=33 (from here:
>>> http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon)
>>>
>>> Which looks like very good news and perfect timing. :)
>>>
>>> If anyone gets tear free ATI video now I'd love to know, if not I'll pop
>>> my 2600 back in to try it if anyone is interested. Only SD though, I
>>> can't afford a flashy telly! :)
>
> Yes, I get tear free video.
You confused me Paul. I somehow thought you had abandoned ATI and moved to Nvidia.
>> Following a few links, looks like the radeonhd driver is the one I
>> need an not
>> the older radeon driver:
>
> No, although radeonhd is supposed to be the one for modern ATI
> chips, it seems to be miles behind the radeon driver which has
> been developed to also handle modern chips and does a great job
> of it.
So this is what I want to look at then:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati/
Looks like the current version is 6.12.2. The 6.6.3 in CentOS 5 is looking
pretty old...
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