2010-02-09, 13:15
So here are few more things I have found,
I have worked quite a bit to tailor my xorg file to my setup and switching to 24hz is perfect with the on-board setup with the 220 and the patch and video drivers glx 190 and 195 and as well as the new beta 195.36.03 anything that I have ripped blu or hd-dvd that is 24 gets the stutter unless I switch off diplay rate matching in xbmc.
BUT anything I play from the DVD player that is live like an actual blu-ray disc or animated series is perfectly fine other than an annoyong black screen pause about 10 seconds after I test the movie and stop it this is switching back to 60hz at this point.
I am compiling the new patch right now to test my 240 again and I will let you know asap paoleary - by the way that patch line will not work from the wiki on the scripts dwnlded files as alsa-driver/sound is actually alsa-driver-1.0.22.1/sound
EDIT - 240 works with the latest patch and msi=0 option in the sound.conf file to let you know. I am downgrading to the glx-185 drivers again as hd rips @ 24Hz will not play from my server and anything animated .avi like south park I get sound fine but video is a bunch of green squares, but family guy plays fine from the dvd player at 24hz off the disc. I will test this more. Remember there is suppose to be a bug with lpcm and 190+ drivers that is suppose to be fixed in the 195.36.03 beta driver but I see the issues with all those drivers other than 185 including channel mapping. Kewl - It's like 5 bugs in one and fixing one breaks another.
Reverting back seems to allow everything to play with the match display rate checked in xbmc but I do not think it is switching as normally I would see an icon on the tv screen telling me it is at 1080p 24Hz and then switch back to 1080p 60Hz when done. So there has to be some new options for these cards that are required in the xorg file to allow for switching on the fly with xrandr that I am not aware of yet. I fixed the defaulting to 24hz on bootup by changing the modeline order in my xorg file. but again with drivers newer than 185 I cannot get solid video playback at anything 24Hz. Anyone else see this.
Oh by the way myth tv audio setup just needs plughw:1,3 in both devices under setup-general to work with these cards, you can edit the one that is already there just change the 0 to a 1 in the existing line.
Great Job on this stuff guys, I cannot wait to get this 100%. It is so smooth with the new cards. OH BY the way stay away from the Asus 220 card without a passive heatsink, it sounds like an airplane inside my chassis when running The fan is stupid loud you can hear it over the file you are playing all the time.
regards,
Dave
I have worked quite a bit to tailor my xorg file to my setup and switching to 24hz is perfect with the on-board setup with the 220 and the patch and video drivers glx 190 and 195 and as well as the new beta 195.36.03 anything that I have ripped blu or hd-dvd that is 24 gets the stutter unless I switch off diplay rate matching in xbmc.
BUT anything I play from the DVD player that is live like an actual blu-ray disc or animated series is perfectly fine other than an annoyong black screen pause about 10 seconds after I test the movie and stop it this is switching back to 60hz at this point.
I am compiling the new patch right now to test my 240 again and I will let you know asap paoleary - by the way that patch line will not work from the wiki on the scripts dwnlded files as alsa-driver/sound is actually alsa-driver-1.0.22.1/sound
EDIT - 240 works with the latest patch and msi=0 option in the sound.conf file to let you know. I am downgrading to the glx-185 drivers again as hd rips @ 24Hz will not play from my server and anything animated .avi like south park I get sound fine but video is a bunch of green squares, but family guy plays fine from the dvd player at 24hz off the disc. I will test this more. Remember there is suppose to be a bug with lpcm and 190+ drivers that is suppose to be fixed in the 195.36.03 beta driver but I see the issues with all those drivers other than 185 including channel mapping. Kewl - It's like 5 bugs in one and fixing one breaks another.
Reverting back seems to allow everything to play with the match display rate checked in xbmc but I do not think it is switching as normally I would see an icon on the tv screen telling me it is at 1080p 24Hz and then switch back to 1080p 60Hz when done. So there has to be some new options for these cards that are required in the xorg file to allow for switching on the fly with xrandr that I am not aware of yet. I fixed the defaulting to 24hz on bootup by changing the modeline order in my xorg file. but again with drivers newer than 185 I cannot get solid video playback at anything 24Hz. Anyone else see this.
Oh by the way myth tv audio setup just needs plughw:1,3 in both devices under setup-general to work with these cards, you can edit the one that is already there just change the 0 to a 1 in the existing line.
Great Job on this stuff guys, I cannot wait to get this 100%. It is so smooth with the new cards. OH BY the way stay away from the Asus 220 card without a passive heatsink, it sounds like an airplane inside my chassis when running The fan is stupid loud you can hear it over the file you are playing all the time.
regards,
Dave