My new HTPC is a G35 board and to be honest, the onboard video via HDMI has been driving me crazy. I know most here are AMD guys but does anyone have success running G35-HDMI consistently?

Issues:

Resolution/timing is wrong 75% of the time...It's usually close to 1080/60 but not exactly. This is random and last I saw a known bug. Resolution - Restart X/gdm several times until it gets it right. Once it comes up correctly, it's fine except for the tearing issue. This is the biggie for me and truly wacky.


Tearing...Terrible tearing and no GL sync.


Anyone have any newer workarounds to these or other tips?

-Trouble

You could try using the latest driver, building it from the source code.

http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html

Thanks for the response...unfortunately, I already am. :(
-Trouble

Do you have XvMC enabled? On my laptop, with the i810 driver, I couldn't watch HD without enabling it. I would only get a blue screen.

I used the MythTV wiki on XvMC for instruction on how to enable it:
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XvMC#INTEL

I'm not using xvmc. I don't believe it works on the X3500 at all. Could be wrong. System is a 3GHz E8400 so it's fast enough without it regardless. This setup uses the intel driver and not i810.
I'm going to get one of the new NVidia R280 or whatever they're called for my gaming PC and swap in my existing 8800GT to the HTPC I think. I really don't think anyone has had good luck with the G35 via HDMI yet.
-Trouble

I'm not using xvmc. I don't believe it works on the X3500 at all. Could be wrong. System is a 3GHz E8400 so it's fast enough without it regardless. This setup uses the intel driver and not i810.
-Trouble

The wiki says to use this:
Option "XvMC" "true" # enable XvMC chipsets after i815
# default is disabled

Thanks, again the issue really is the fact that the driver does not consistently provide a particular resolution via HDMI. Tearing is important but secondary. XvMC is great if you need it but letting ffmpeg or whatnot provide software rendering is pretty much preferred if there's horsepower to handle it. The problem is that the intel driver for the X3500 for xorg sucks at this point. As I look today there is a patch to apply which may or may not help. Of course the card works just fine under Windows. I have not kept up on it daily so I was hoping somebody perhaps had some luck with something beyond what I've tried. This is not a new chipset at this point and I really find it pathetic that Intel can't get their $%@^ together and have it work with their push to provide engineering time and talent for Linux drivers.

-Trouble