On Monday 20 December 2004 3:21 pm, Richard wrote:
Blasphemy! I have always been an ATI card user, mostly for the AIW option, but the inability to get drivers to use for 2.6 kernel, X.org files, and so on is getting me to turn attention to nVidia. At the risk of starting a major catfight over cards, any suggestions? I was somewhat comfortable knowing ATI card numbers and "what they had under the hood" but am in the dark for nVidia. I have not seen an AIW equivalent. Is there one, or is that not such a great idea anyway, and if not, what is a good TV card for linux? > snip < Thanks, Richard
I'm in the same boat as you with ATI's AIW cards; great day for a sail, eh? Great idea IF they'd support Linux for them. My suggestion would be to get a stand alone TV card such as the Hauppage PVR cards. Then you can use ATI, Nvidia, Matrox or whatever for your primary video card. There seems to be more/better and quicker support for stand alone TV cards then for ATI's AIW cards. I put the blame on ATI because they seem to have used many 3rd parties to get all the components together and someone isn't playing nice with Linux by releasing drivers for the various multimedia portions of the AIW cards. My vote: get a stand alone TV/multimedia card. Stan