On Tuesday 12 April 2005 8:30 am, Laur Ivan wrote:
Hi all,
I'm going to upgrade my system and I was thinking in investing in a relatively powerful hardware. It's final purpose will be of both devel 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 more cost effective (and, more important, only one slot occupied) than other combination...
However, upon poking around on the various forums I've found only panicked mails about things not working, etc. My questions re this subject are: 1. Is this the right place to ask them? :) 2. Is there any sort of TV support on Linux for AIW? I'd just love to run mythTV and get it over with :) 3. More to the subject: Any SuSE users with AIW's? I'd like to find out about reasons of happiness, problems etc.
Tia,
Laur
1. OK to ask here _IF_ you are using SUSE for this.!.! 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. 3. AIW 8500DV and an AIW 128 whatever and a TV Wonder/VE. When there is support from gatos it works very well. The TV Wonder is a standalone PCI card and its OK, mono sound, etc. 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 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. 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... 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. Stan