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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] radeon aiw tv support
From:       Laur Ivan <laur.ivan () corvil ! com>
Date:       2005-04-12 15:58:43
Message-ID: 200504121658.43412.laur.ivan () corvil ! com
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On Tuesday 12 April 2005 15:57, Stan Glasoe wrote:

> 1. OK to ask here _IF_ you are using SUSE for this.!.!
:) 9.2 all over the place here :)

>
> 2. There is TV support and more for the AIW _if_ you aren't too bleeding
> edge on your Xorg/XFree86 programs. http://gatos.sourceforge.org is the
> place for AIW drivers. They are at XFree86 4.3.0 and X.org 6.7.0 levels.
> SUSE 9.2 started at X.org 6.8.1 so that eliminated stable release support.
> I have not tried compiling the latest & greatest CVS from gatos so I can't
> say what is supported there.
..and the only way to have it tested is to get an AIW :) 

>
> My experience says go the dual card route. Decent main video card and from
> what I am learning a Hauppage PVR 250 or better.
Yes, that's first thing that came to mind... and I just might end up with this 
sort of solution... I guess I'll have to wait and see (june is the timeframe 
for the big upgrade)

> The main problem with 
> ATI's AIW cards is ATI. They have licensed other software for the
> multimedia capabilities of these cards under MS Windows. Apparently these
> licenses don't allow for Linux support too.
that's a pitty. support for such integrated hardware solution would be great. 
I've been playing with mythTV the other day and it's quite nice. I was 
talking to some of the gatos people a few years back and they said there are 
a bunch of NDAs which they have agreed to in order to get the info. Also, at 
the time they were about 1 year behind with the supported/tested HDD. I don't 
think it changed too much.

> There was a recent article on Slashdot
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/07/1652233&tid=129 on a decent
> Home Theatre PC Guide at http://www.2cpu.com/articles/113_1.html. Has some
> good insight.
Yes, I've seen that article.. but I'm more for a shuttle xpc than yet another 
large box.. and that's going to have an extra pcix/agp and a pci at best.  

Thanks a lot,

Laur

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