Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 8:30 am, Laur Ivan wrote:
and home entertainment. The combination I have in mind is a shuttle amd64 barebone with a radeon AIW (i'm thinking on a pciE 600X-something). It's That is almost what I have. I got an Asus board with AMD64 and I have an AIW 8500DV.
However, upon poking around on the various forums I've found only panicked mails about things not working, etc. My questions re this That is what I have found too
1. OK to ask here _IF_ you are using SUSE for this.!.! I don't know about the original poster but I have tried both XP64 and SuSE 9.1. On the XP side, it seems there is no hope for 64 bit because ATI doesn't support it with their 64 bit driver even though their site suggests it does. For SuSE it seems I might have to use SuSE 9.0 to get this working.
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. That seems to be the big problem. The gatos project has some support but there is one important component that only works with 2.4 kernels. AT that point I gave up for the moment because I wasn't sure at what point 64 bit support was added to SuSE
3. AIW 8500DV and an AIW 128 whatever and a TV Wonder/VE. When there is I may be remembering incorrectly but the 8500 might not be the best choice. Last time I looked at gatos, thought I saw the 7500 having better support.
My experience says go the dual card route. Decent main video card and from what I am learning a Hauppage PVR 250 or better. The main problem with I think I am coming to that conclusion too. I already had the AIW 8500DV for a while and wanted to use it but it seems I can only use that one in Windows although perhaps with a lot of fighting, I could get it to work with SuSE
multimedia capabilities of these cards under MS Windows. Apparently these licenses don't allow for Linux support too. :-(
All ATI provides for Linux support is the main graphics driver. They say they are working with gatos and other projects for the mulitmedia Linux drivers for these cards but as they aren't available... I wish they did but it doesn't look like they give much support.
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