On Friday 02 January 2004 4:08 pm, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
Hi, gang.
I'm thinking of buying an ATI 9800 All In Wonder Radeon video capture card. Unfortunately ATI does not support Linux, and their customer service dept. could not provide any assurance that the card would work.
Does anyone have this card running properly? Did it work out of the box or did you need to obtain additional drivers? If additional drivers were needed where did you find them?
Any suggestions or assistance is greatly appreciated. This card is too expensive to buy without first knowing it's going to work. Thx. J
** I'm not as good as I was once, but I am as good once as I ever was.. "A nasty bit of rough" by David Feherty **
-- j
Personal experience with ATI's AIW cards and Linux leads me to recommend separate components instead. Get a decent graphics card and a separate TV/FM/PVR type card. ATI isn't stepping up to Linux with support for the AIW. They have decent enough software for Windows OSes but nothing for Linux. They aren't helping much on the other projects such as gatos.sourceforge.net that are trying to produce drivers for the AIW portion. My 8500DV AIW doesn't have 3D support with the gatos drivers but I can watch TV, xine looks great with DVDs, etc. TV isn't as good under Linux as Windows. Haven't seen any contrary opinions to mine on this list ... yet!?!? Nor any other suggestions to get decent performance out of an AIW. Hey, its a new year, new surprises may occur... Check the list archives for TV card info. Same question was just asked about which stand-alone TV/PVR style card is best... check /. also. Stan