Mailing List Archive: ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out

ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out

Jun 9, 2003, 5:03 AM

Post #1 of 7 (1847 views)

Hi All

Has anyone succesfully got an ATI Radeon 7000 to work with TV Out? It works
flawlessly with the XF86Config file set to "vesa" but obviously there is no
hardware acceleration and the movies come out jerky (mythtv also comes up in
a window instead of fullscreen).

When I use the "ati" or "radeon" drivers, the TV loses sync as soon as X
starts. I've tried various combinations of HorizSync and VertRefresh to no
avail.

I'm using gentoo, I've tried with both the "ati-drivers" package, and with the
"drm-trunk" package which apparently contains some v4l patches (kraken
patch?) and the drm stuff. In frustration I've fallen back to using a generic
nVidia whose video output is a lot poorer than the ati.

Martin Cosgrave

Re: ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out [ In reply to ]

irish at irishmark

Jun 9, 2003, 5:30 AM

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Hey Martin, Yeah I use vesa with mine (don't think anything else works?)
but video isn't jerky at all.
I've set up mplayer defaults to use x11 which works very well.
liveTV is jerky, but thats because my hware mpeg encoder hasn't arrived yet,
and to get what I consider watchable TV through myth my Athlon2000+ isn't
fast enough.

attached is my XF86config file.

Let me know how you get on

cheers
Mark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Cosgrave" <martin@bettercode.com>
To: <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:03 PM
Subject: [mythtv-users] ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out

>
> Hi All
>
> Has anyone succesfully got an ATI Radeon 7000 to work with TV Out? It
works
> flawlessly with the XF86Config file set to "vesa" but obviously there is
no
> hardware acceleration and the movies come out jerky (mythtv also comes up
in
> a window instead of fullscreen).
>
> When I use the "ati" or "radeon" drivers, the TV loses sync as soon as X
> starts. I've tried various combinations of HorizSync and VertRefresh to no
> avail.
>
> I'm using gentoo, I've tried with both the "ati-drivers" package, and with
the
> "drm-trunk" package which apparently contains some v4l patches (kraken
> patch?) and the drm stuff. In frustration I've fallen back to using a
generic
> nVidia whose video output is a lot poorer than the ati.
>
> Martin Cosgrave
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out [ In reply to ]

martin at bettercode

Jun 9, 2003, 6:17 AM

Post #3 of 7 (1833 views)

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On Monday 09 June 2003 13:30, Mark Edwards wrote:
> Hey Martin, Yeah I use vesa with mine (don't think anything else works?)
> but video isn't jerky at all.

for me the software scaling (no Xv) means that both live TV and recorded
mythtv movies are pretty jerky - enough to be annoying, and I have an Athlon
2k+ too.

I sort of suspected that there might be some precise settings for VertRefresh
and HorizSync which would force the TV output to sync up correctly. Haven't
been able to find them empirically though.

> I've set up mplayer defaults to use x11 which works very well.
> liveTV is jerky, but thats because my hware mpeg encoder hasn't arrived
> yet, and to get what I consider watchable TV through myth my Athlon2000+
> isn't fast enough.
>
> attached is my XF86config file.
>
> Let me know how you get on
>
> cheers
> Mark.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Cosgrave" <martin@bettercode.com>
> To: <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 1:03 PM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > Has anyone succesfully got an ATI Radeon 7000 to work with TV Out? It
>
> works
>
> > flawlessly with the XF86Config file set to "vesa" but obviously there is
>
> no
>
> > hardware acceleration and the movies come out jerky (mythtv also comes up
>
> in
>
> > a window instead of fullscreen).
> >
> > When I use the "ati" or "radeon" drivers, the TV loses sync as soon as X
> > starts. I've tried various combinations of HorizSync and VertRefresh to
> > no avail.
> >
> > I'm using gentoo, I've tried with both the "ati-drivers" package, and
> > with
>
> the
>
> > "drm-trunk" package which apparently contains some v4l patches (kraken
> > patch?) and the drm stuff. In frustration I've fallen back to using a
>
> generic
>
> > nVidia whose video output is a lot poorer than the ati.
> >
> > Martin Cosgrave
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users@snowman.net
> > http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users

Re: ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out [ In reply to ]

dhubbard at dwightandamy

Jun 9, 2003, 9:06 AM

Post #4 of 7 (1820 views)

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This question has been answered multiple times. You can find the answer
by searching the archives at:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgido=search;guest=593126&t=search_engine

But the answer is go to
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/watching_tv.php

Under "Adventurous setup" click the link in "Follow
instructions to install devel branch of ati.2".

>
> Hi All
>
> Has anyone succesfully got an ATI Radeon 7000 to work with TV Out? It
> works
> flawlessly with the XF86Config file set to "vesa" but obviously there is
> no
> hardware acceleration and the movies come out jerky (mythtv also comes up
> in
> a window instead of fullscreen).
>
> When I use the "ati" or "radeon" drivers, the TV loses sync as soon as X
> starts. I've tried various combinations of HorizSync and VertRefresh to no
> avail.
>
> I'm using gentoo, I've tried with both the "ati-drivers" package, and with
> the
> "drm-trunk" package which apparently contains some v4l patches (kraken
> patch?) and the drm stuff. In frustration I've fallen back to using a
> generic
> nVidia whose video output is a lot poorer than the ati.
>
> Martin Cosgrave
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users@snowman.net
> http://lists.snowman.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>

--

Re: ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out [ In reply to ]

ijw1 at pacbell

Jun 9, 2003, 3:11 PM

Post #5 of 7 (1805 views)

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On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:06:30AM -0500, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
> This question has been answered multiple times. You can find the answer
> by searching the archives at:
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgido=search;guest=593126&t=search_engine
>
> But the answer is go to
> http://gatos.sourceforge.net/watching_tv.php
>
> Under "Adventurous setup" click the link in "Follow
> instructions to install devel branch of ati.2".

Has the devel branch been updated recently? Last time I checked (a month
or two ago) it was abandoned, and would only compile with XFree 4.2.0 or
earlier, definitely not XFree 4.3.0.

Ian

Re: ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out [ In reply to ]

bjm at lvcm

Jun 9, 2003, 3:39 PM

Post #6 of 7 (1797 views)

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Ian Westcott wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:06:30AM -0500, Dwight Hubbard wrote:
>
>>This question has been answered multiple times. You can find the answer
>>by searching the archives at:
>>http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgido=search;guest=593126&t=search_engine
>>
>>But the answer is go to
>>http://gatos.sourceforge.net/watching_tv.php
>>
>>Under "Adventurous setup" click the link in "Follow
>>instructions to install devel branch of ati.2".
>
>
> Has the devel branch been updated recently?

Nope.

> Last time I checked (a month
> or two ago) it was abandoned, and would only compile with XFree 4.2.0 or
> earlier, definitely not XFree 4.3.0.

Pose your questions to the GATOS mailing list.

-- bjm

Re: ATI Radeon 7000 TV-Out [ In reply to ]

martin at bettercode

Jun 9, 2003, 4:51 PM

Post #7 of 7 (1814 views)

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> But the answer is go to
> http://gatos.sourceforge.net/watching_tv.php
>
> Under "Adventurous setup" click the link in "Follow
> instructions to install devel branch of ati.2".

Oh yes. I tried that about a month ago but there was no 4.3.0 version. Does
this mean I have to go back down to the 4.2.0 version of Xfree?

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