Good day all,
I think I need some advice please:
I have read this Forum from side to side and searched extensively and I am still confused. I cannot seem to get a clearcut black/white view on how to proceed and with which driver.
My question is:
I have a Gigabyte Socket AM2+, GA-MA78GPM-DS2H, AMD780G with HD3200 IGP + 128Mb Sideport memory. 4 GB RAM, 2 x 750GB SATA HD and either an AMD 8450 x3 2.1GHz Phenom or an AMD ATHLON 64 X2 6000+ AM2 (3GHz) CPU
I would like to run Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 + MythTV 0.21 + Fixes (Frontend) (No Compiz, No games etc - Only purpose is as Music/DVD/TV player/PVR)
My Needs are:
HDMI Video out (no audio needed - will be via SPDIF) to display on 1280 x 1080i 50" Pioneer Plasma Display. (True Res 1368 x 768 so need to be able to adjust overscan a bit - not much though)
SMOOTH DVD Playback.
CONSISTENT and SMOOTH and Tear free TV Playback (if possible using Greedymotion x 2 Filter - Best for smoothing tickertapes)
Mainly, glitch free operation on the video side.
Now to my question:
Which driver do I use to achieve the above?
If I cannot achieve the above needs with the built-in HD3200 please advise me of a cheap (passive cooled) ATI add-in card and driver that I can use to achieve the above needs.
Unfortunately, the more I read, the more confused I get, thus the question.
Thank You Kindly
Background info:
I also have Gigabyte Socket AM2+, GA-M78SM-S2H, GF8200 but have given up on it. Not only has the HDMI output stopped working on any NVIDIA driver after 173 and up to 180.22 but if I use the NVIDIA driver 173 to 180.22 I get the following continuous SATA errors on my Hard drives when using Bonnie to exercise them:
[ 247.123447] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x201 SErr 0x400000 action 0x6 frozen
[ 247.123452] ata2.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
[ 247.123455] ata2: SError: { Handshk }
[ 247.123459] ata2.00: cmd 61/00:00:cf:ff:2e/04:00:05:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 524288 out
[ 247.123460] res 40/00:04:cf:ff:2e/00:00:05:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[ 247.123462] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 247.123466] ata2.00: cmd 61/40:48:e7:05:2f/02:00:05:00:00/40 tag 9 ncq 294912 out
[ 247.123467] res 40/00:04:cf:ff:2e/00:00:05:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
The above errors go away if using the Intrepid Vesa driver or by disabling the onboard 8200 IGP and installing an add-in 7200 or 7300 Nvidia card.
The combination of NVIDIA drivers + 8200 IGP causes the errors to re-appear every time.
Even with NCQ and and the Write-Cache turned off!
Unfortunately I have NEVER been able to get Tear free and Smooth TV/DVD playback using the NVIDIA board. Plus the HDMI output not working once the NVIDIA driver loads (above v173 - Works fine for Text output via HDMI in all versions until driver loads) means I just had enough.
Last nail in the coffin was the SATA errors for this MB.
Note that HDMI output works on the 7200 and 7300 add-in cards with all drivers but Tear free smooth TV/DVD playback still eludes me after having read the nvnews site from side to side and applying various suggested fixes, vblanks, glyphcaches etc.
I think I need some advice please:
I have read this Forum from side to side and searched extensively and I am still confused. I cannot seem to get a clearcut black/white view on how to proceed and with which driver.
My question is:
I have a Gigabyte Socket AM2+, GA-MA78GPM-DS2H, AMD780G with HD3200 IGP + 128Mb Sideport memory. 4 GB RAM, 2 x 750GB SATA HD and either an AMD 8450 x3 2.1GHz Phenom or an AMD ATHLON 64 X2 6000+ AM2 (3GHz) CPU
I would like to run Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 + MythTV 0.21 + Fixes (Frontend) (No Compiz, No games etc - Only purpose is as Music/DVD/TV player/PVR)
My Needs are:
HDMI Video out (no audio needed - will be via SPDIF) to display on 1280 x 1080i 50" Pioneer Plasma Display. (True Res 1368 x 768 so need to be able to adjust overscan a bit - not much though)
SMOOTH DVD Playback.
CONSISTENT and SMOOTH and Tear free TV Playback (if possible using Greedymotion x 2 Filter - Best for smoothing tickertapes)
Mainly, glitch free operation on the video side.
Now to my question:
Which driver do I use to achieve the above?
If I cannot achieve the above needs with the built-in HD3200 please advise me of a cheap (passive cooled) ATI add-in card and driver that I can use to achieve the above needs.
Unfortunately, the more I read, the more confused I get, thus the question.
Thank You Kindly
Background info:
I also have Gigabyte Socket AM2+, GA-M78SM-S2H, GF8200 but have given up on it. Not only has the HDMI output stopped working on any NVIDIA driver after 173 and up to 180.22 but if I use the NVIDIA driver 173 to 180.22 I get the following continuous SATA errors on my Hard drives when using Bonnie to exercise them:
[ 247.123447] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x201 SErr 0x400000 action 0x6 frozen
[ 247.123452] ata2.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
[ 247.123455] ata2: SError: { Handshk }
[ 247.123459] ata2.00: cmd 61/00:00:cf:ff:2e/04:00:05:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 524288 out
[ 247.123460] res 40/00:04:cf:ff:2e/00:00:05:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
[ 247.123462] ata2.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 247.123466] ata2.00: cmd 61/40:48:e7:05:2f/02:00:05:00:00/40 tag 9 ncq 294912 out
[ 247.123467] res 40/00:04:cf:ff:2e/00:00:05:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
The above errors go away if using the Intrepid Vesa driver or by disabling the onboard 8200 IGP and installing an add-in 7200 or 7300 Nvidia card.
The combination of NVIDIA drivers + 8200 IGP causes the errors to re-appear every time.
Even with NCQ and and the Write-Cache turned off!
Unfortunately I have NEVER been able to get Tear free and Smooth TV/DVD playback using the NVIDIA board. Plus the HDMI output not working once the NVIDIA driver loads (above v173 - Works fine for Text output via HDMI in all versions until driver loads) means I just had enough.
Last nail in the coffin was the SATA errors for this MB.
Note that HDMI output works on the 7200 and 7300 add-in cards with all drivers but Tear free smooth TV/DVD playback still eludes me after having read the nvnews site from side to side and applying various suggested fixes, vblanks, glyphcaches etc.
Comment