On Wednesday 24 August 2005 11:38 pm, Michael Krufky wrote: > Mac Michaels wrote: > > I own an ATI Radeon X800 XL 256 AGP. It is supposed to > > have support for MEPG2. The linux driver from ATI does > > not support it at all. It doesn't even support the dual > > head capabilities of my card. ATI technical support for > > linux is non existant. They do not answer questions > > with useful information. DO NOT buy an ATI card. > > > > So far I can not get HDTV to work on my ATI card > > because the ATI binary driver does not allocate enough > > DRI buffer space to hold a 1920x1080 image. Lower > > resolutions work fine. > > Mac- > > Your ATI board is much beefier that my on-board ATI > RADEON IGP 9100, and I don't have the problem that you're > talking about at all. In fact, I have already told you > that I am getting amazingly perfect HDTV video in 1080i. Are you connected to a HDTV with component video? > Maybe you should switch away from the binary driver and > try the radeon driver in the kernel. I would like to do that but the Radeon driver in the kernel does not support my card. I think it has a 520 chip on it. I bought it for the component video output. I can see the PC BIOS POST and start of the boot process on the HDTV monitor. The HDTV monitor goes blank when the ATI binary driver starts up. -- Mac
