Hi,

I've been messing around with KnoppMyth R5A16 for the last week. Now, I've gotten my hands on an ATI Radeon 7000 card for free. I know, ati cards are a real pain in the butt to get working and I already see why. When I boot her up X won't start. Now, I've searched the forum but, honestly my head is spinning, I don't know too much about linux, hell it took me a while to figure out that XFree86 is the name of the windowing system (I think). Can someone explain to me or point me to a past explanation of what to do to get this card up and running? Installing drivers, modifying the XFree86 file. Any help would be appreciated.

ok, the solution to this problem wasn't nice, but that's because I don't know any better. I said what the hell and just reinstalled Knoppmyth and I guess the install set everything up for the video card. Now, I can see X and mythtv on a regular CRT. Is it too much to hope for that R5A16 comes with automatic support for the tv-out on ATI Radeon 7000 cards? Again, help would be appreciated.

well, I went through the process of updating mplayer so it could play divx/xvid files and now it can't play my divx videos. Let me guess, mplayer upgrade + ati = doesn't work without monkeying around? Right?

ati + mplayer shouldn't pose any problems, must have been something that happened when you recompiled mplayer.

ati + tvout doesn't happen without a bunch of monkeying around, and I've only actually heard two or three people who managed to get it working before they just gave up and got nvidia.

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hey, I also have a radeon 7000 pci.
Had lots of trouble and still "not quite there" but this is what I do know:
Can view liveTV on my CRT with driver "Radeon". But then, my TV (composite) is out of sync. (maybe I can fix this in XF86Config, but I'm not an X guru..)

If I change my driver to "vesa" I get output both places but then playback (LiveTV) is really choppy.

Gets better when I use "800x600" and manually trying (from xterm):
mplayer -vo x11 -framedrop -fs -zoom /dev/video0

But don't know how to set this and apply it for mythtv.. Probably possible, don't know if liveTV is using settings from video playback..?

Anyway, let me know if you learn something or want to ask about my setup.

(Using PAL standard btw..)

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the tv portion of mythtv does not use mplayer.

the only way to get accelerated playback on tvout is going to be using the ati binary driver. Some have claimed success, but it's still a PITA to get working.

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