Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-multimedia (29 mails)

[aseelye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Ya it's a pretty nice card. I've got a Windows box at home too but it just seemed
like a huge waste to put it on a Windows machine.
Thanks for the help guys. I'll give this a try tonight and see how it goes.


>I stand corrected, sounds like a nice card.  I see a posting to
>sourceforge, I suspect that will get you going.  I had similar situation
>getting my All-In-Wonder board going, the standard frame buffers in
>LINUX are geared toward the more common chips like the WinTV card uses.
>Good luck and hang in there!
>
>On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:08, aseelye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> The specific card is the Asylum GeForce4 Ti 4600 by BFG Technologies. The
specifications
>> on the box say it is equiped with TV in/out and there are 6 connectors on
this
>> puppy. A DVI out, VGA out, S-video in, S-video-out, TV-in(rca) and TV-out(rca).

>> All I really want to do with it is plug in a video camera. I'm not so concerned

>> with the tuner aspect of it as just getting the video-in to work. But I suppose

>> a tuner/decoder would still be required for that.
>>
>> >I believe you might be trying to get TV Reception off this card, and
>> >according to their web page, I see no mention of a tuner section on the

>> >card.  Cards such as WinTV and ATI All-in Wonder cards include a TV
>> >Tuner and decoders to function as a TV Receiver.
>> >
>> >On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:23, aseelye@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >> I recently installed this card and it has been fantastic. It installed
very
>> easily
>> >> and it's putting out around 400 fps in every game I've got (Q3, RtCW,
a few
>>
>> >> others) with all of the eye candy turned on and maxxed out. I also managed

>> to
>> >> get twinview working right off the bat with no problems so overall I'm
very
>>
>> >> pleased with this card.
>> >>
>> >> The only thing I haven't figured out yet is the TV-in function. I had
an
>> old
>> >> Hauppauge WinTV card on here and it worked great with XawTV. But I'm at
a
>> total
>> >> loss as to how to get the TV-in working with the GeForce4. The system
doesn't
>>
>> >> seem to be detecting any TV input of any kind and NVidia and BFGtech have

>> absolutely
>> >> nothing in their documentation about configuring TV-in at all except that

>> the
>> >> capability is there.
>> >>
>> >> I'm using SuSE 7.3 with kernel v2.4.16. I'm relatively dumb about working

>> with
>> >> kernel modules so if that has anything to do with it I don't even know
where
>>
>> >> to start. I just assumed that NVidia’s kernel module (1.0-4191) and GLX
drivers
>>
>> >> should be all that I need. Below are the specs for my system.
>> >>
>> >> SuSE 7.3, Kernel 2.4.16
>> >> xF86 4.2
>> >> 1.5 GHz AthlonXP
>> >> 768mb DDR RAM
>> >> VIA KT333 chipset
>> >>
>> >> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> -Allen
>> >>
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