This is a fully up-to-date FC4 (Fedora Core 4) box.
lspci:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01)
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/via_drv.o (II) Module via: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 4.1.30 Module class: X.Org Video Driver ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
$ tvtime Running tvtime 1.0.1. Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.
*** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
Is there anything to be done about this? The earliest bug reports about YUY2 failing on S3 Unichrome date back to 9/26/2003:
http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=45263&...
TIA, SW
Skunk Worx wrote:
$ tvtime
*** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
http://sourceforge.net/projects/unichrome
CVS version of xf86-video-unichrome fixed this. I don't know if there is a easier way; I downloaded and compiled X to do it.
-- SW
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Skunk Worx