On 02/03/2011 03:47 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 02/03/2011 11:22 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon
HD 3600 Series
>>
>> According to the box, it's a Vision Tek Radeon HD3650.
>
> RV635 PRO chipset. PCIE x16 and AGP bus interfaces. How much video RAM?
> 256? 512? 1024? The man page for radeon doesn't explicitly mention
I think 512 MB, but I'm not sure.
I don't have the box anymore.
Is there a way to ask?
No, from some product announcement I saw, 512 sounds about right.
It might be available in the Xorg.0.log, but with that much video ram,
it shouldn't be important.
> your model number, but it does claim to support your chipset.
>
> Have you read the man page radeon(4)? It lists all the options.
> Perhaps playing with some of them will improve your performance.
When I get home, I'll check the man pages there.
Googling for radeon man pages, I only found
radeonhd that claimed to support HD3650.
radeonhd was a stop-gap driver put out while waiting for radeon to
mature. Radeon has since matured, and should support most of what
radeonhd set out to do.
The last time I had problems,
'Twas recommended that I not use radeonhd,
either because it didn't work or because
it had been absorbed into radeon.
Most likely the latter, radeon would now be more up-to-date, and use of
radeonhd should be deprecated. It still exists in F13, but it is no
longer found in F14....
>>> Let's concentrate on mplayer. Does it work any
better if you specify
>>> "-vo xv" or "-vo xvidix"?
>>
>>> From the command line I tried
>> xv: DRI failure, pixelation
>
> That would suggest either a bad video card, or the support for your card
> is not (yet) complete in the radeon driver. Have you tried a more
> recent video driver?
I don't know how for sure.
If it involves installing an RPM, I'll try to figure out the name tonight.
probably xorg-x11-drv-ati
> I haven't asked yet, what version of fedora, and what version
of
> xorg_x11_drv_ati? I'm running F14 w/
FC 13.
I'll check xorg_x11_drv_ati when I get home.
That should have been: xorg-x11-drv-ati
My bad.
> xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.13.1-0.3.20100705git37b348059.fc14.x86_64
The version in F13 is: 6.13.0-1, slightly older than the version in F14.
And there is a version 6.13.1-0.4.20100705git37b348059.fc14 in
updates-testing on F14.
>> gl_nosw: pixelation, but no DRI failure message
>> dga: mess
>> fbdev: cannot open /dev/fb, no video
>> xvidix: pci errors, no video
>> x11: DRI failure, pixelation
>
> Without some sort of hardware support, 3D is going to require a really
> fast CPU. What is the processor in your system? 32 or 64 bit? Any
> idea what the system bus is running at? My laptop has an Intel Core2
> T7200 @ 2.0GHz. With my video card, HD is iffy at best (playing a local
3.2 GHz pentium 4, 32 bits, with 4 GB RAM, 800 MHz FSB.
From what I've seen on the MythTV list, 3.2GHz P4 cpu is about the
bottom of the barrel for enough horsepower for HD. Some people claim
that a 3.4 I know that my AMD XP 2600+ was just under what I needed to
do HD well (with a GeForce 6200 card and XvMC). I'm sure that once we
get to the heart of the matter with the video card support, you'll be fine.
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