Misspelled nemesis club » hdtv http://moreati.org.uk/blog A blog about life, technology & databases Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:57:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The IBM compatible PC, catching the Amiga since 1992 http://moreati.org.uk/blog/2008/02/10/the-ibm-compatible-pc-catching-the-amiga-since-1992/ http://moreati.org.uk/blog/2008/02/10/the-ibm-compatible-pc-catching-the-amiga-since-1992/#comments Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:13:22 +0000 Alex Willmer http://alexw.webfactional.com/blog/?p=16 Around 1992 my second computer was an Amiga 500+, a lovely machine. It beat the pants off any PC at the time, particularly for playing Lemmings. Many Amigas used a television for their display, as a result they could run at a super high interlaced resolution. This looked awful and induced headaches. Interlacing is a fairly good compromise for television shows and movies, it’s terrible for sharp graphics such as a computer desktop.

Nevertheless, in 2008, I’m pleased to say that the latest Linux drivers v169.07 by Nvidia support an interlaced display. These drivers are in Ubuntu Gutsy. This has meant my mythical MythTV computer is finally displaying in HD, at the native resolution of 1920 x 1080 interlaced, aka 1080i. The interlacing causes a shimmering during fade effects or vertical motion, it’s distracting but bearable.

This isn’t the big news though. Intel has released programming manuals  for some of it’s graphics chipsets. This means Keith Packard can get some community assistance with the X.org intel driver and that bug 11220 has a better chance of getting fixed.

Update: Dear Intel, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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