Re: Radeon versus Catalyst

2011-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 13:10:55 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Statements like that always bring up the question in my mind: How the > heck does anyone know what all these code names for chip sets are and > which ones are used on which products? :-). http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature It li

Re: Radeon versus Catalyst

2011-06-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:36:16 -0500 Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:47:22 -0400, > Tom Horsley wrote: > > > > Does anyone happen to know the magic voo-doo I must have > > missed to get decent video from the catalyst drivers, or > > am I doomed to using Windows 7 if I want bo

Re: Radeon versus Catalyst

2011-06-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:47:22 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > > Does anyone happen to know the magic voo-doo I must have > missed to get decent video from the catalyst drivers, or > am I doomed to using Windows 7 if I want both audio and > video at the same time :-). HDMI support already exists

Radeon versus Catalyst

2011-06-22 Thread Tom Horsley
Apparently the only way I can get audio out my HDMI port is to use the closed source ATI catalyst drivers for my video card (which I was able to get from rpmfusion). When I tried switching to the catalyst driver, the video quality was just appallingly awful. I found the moronic overscan control an