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Any news on ATI fglrx 8.42?
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So guys, what else do you think is on the table for 8.42 aside from the pre-R600 fixes?Michael Larabel
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Did you mean "they" for "the Ubuntu team will not update the driver to 8.42" or "AMD will not release the driver before october 18"?
So guys, what else do you think is on the table for 8.42 aside from the pre-R600 fixes?
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Originally posted by d2kx View PostI meant Ubuntu will not include them for Gutsy. There is a chance that the fglrx 8.42 gets backported for Gutsy but I would not trust in this. However, you can, of course, install the fglrx by yourself.
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Originally posted by Michael View PostSo guys, what else do you think is on the table for 8.42 aside from the pre-R600 fixes?
Maybe umm... Ohh wait, no they won't do that (fix agp bus issue on x1k cards). If they do, i'm sold, that shouldn't be a hard bug to fix anyway, its a detection problem.
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I'm new here so sorry if this is a silly question: will the 8.42 fglrx driver bring support for hardware acceleration of decoding h.264 video or VC-1 (taking advantage of the UVD)?
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Originally posted by Fenix-TX View PostWhen will fglrx driver fixes bug with a capture tv? I've always have problem with fglrx and capture tv. If o open any tv program, like kdetv, xawtv, ... the screen switch to black (in the best case) or crashes x server (the worse case).
Code:Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "disable" # fglrx-only f?r xvideo (tvtime) Option "XVideo" "Enable" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter" Driver "fglrx" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Screen 0 Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS, NONE" Option "AGPMode" "8" Option "RenderAccel" "on" Option "AccelMethod" "xaa" Option "GARTSize" "64" # noetig f?r fl?ssiges Bild unter tvtime Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" # r300 driver options # Option "EnablePageFlip" "true" # Option "ColorTiling" "true" # fglrx options Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off" Option "UseInternalAGPGART" "no" EndSection
In short: watching TV is possible over here using the fglrx driver though the output does not look as crisp as with the open radeon driver. At least when not running at full screen it seems to be rather "blocky" especially with text. When capturing a screenshot from inside tvtime that is not oberservable (as well it is working nicely with the open driver) so it is definatly an issue with the xvideo implementation in the fglrx driver.
PS: I was never able to get things working using kdetv but I do at least get an image using xawtv. My graphics card is a ATI Radeon 9800Pro and my TV-Card is a Cinergy 400 TV (using the "Philips Semiconductors SAA7134/SAA7135HL Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)
" (regadring to lspci)). I had initially some problems to get the tuner working since autodetection does not work nicely...
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