Mac Michaels wrote: >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? > > No... I have it hooked up to a computer monitor with 1600X1200 resolution. >>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. > > This sounds strange to me.... There must be an open source driver out there.... or maybe it's being worked on. I wouldn't give up on ATI that quick... -- Michael Krufky
