Another ati/radeonhd problem?

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Greetings;
>
>One of the applications I've fallen in love with is tvtime which works with
> my pcHDTV3000 card quite nicely if I'm running the nvidia drivers on an
> nvidia card.
>
>But I couldn't seem to make it work even after I had recovered the files so
> I had yum install it again, no dice.  Running it from a shell gives this
> failure message:
>
>[root at coyote src]# tvtime
>Running tvtime 1.0.1.
>Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
>Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
>xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.
>
>*** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
>*** driver.  If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
>*** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
>*** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
>*** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
>*** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
>*** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.
>
>Is this hopeless?
>
>Is there another tv viewer application that will work with the radeonhd
>driver?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Humm, I've just followed a link to an ati driver that supposedly supports
> this card for linux.  Has anyone any brickbats to throw at it other than
> its closed src?  Its about 51 megabytes I've just dl'd.  I'll test it and
> see if I need some rocks to wrap my ransom notes around, later folks.

And this is the flglx I guess, DRI still isn't working, and glxgears slowed 
down 150 fps, and screen scrolls of one line of text are so slow that if it 
was a falling window, I could reach out and catch it.  Absolutely no danger 
of my missing it and my reflexes are, at 73, noticeably slower.  Terrible 
performance.

I've found that I had DRM for the old XFree86 drivers enabled in the kernel, 
so I have one building without that option just for grins.  Maybe it was 
getting in the way?  Anyway, this is my wheelborrow full of bricks thrown at 
ATI.  The driver sucks.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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