Re: [SLE] ATI 9800 All In Wonder Radeon video capture card -- working for anyone?
From: Stan Glasoe (srglasoe_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/03/04
- Previous message: Mads Martin Joergensen: "Re: [SLE] Other Mailing List"
- In reply to: BandiPat: "Re: [SLE] ATI 9800 All In Wonder Radeon video capture card -- working for anyone?"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:09:42 -0600
On Friday 02 January 2004 9:37 pm, BandiPat wrote:
> On Friday 02 January 2004 05:08 pm, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Can't vouch for the AIW part, but believe you will be ok. I can
> although vouch for support. ATI provides drivers for Linux, but it
> seems some of those people you have talked with at ATI are a bit
> uninformed. I guess one could say they don't give full support, but
> ATI has been very good with Open Source, so far.
>
> SuSE 9.0 supports all the ATI 9000 series, in fact, the 9800 was
> supported under the XFree86 version included with 8.2 SuSE. I only
> have the 9200 Pro, but it was a painless install. Both 2D & 3D are
> supported and I believe the TV part is some standard chip on the 9800
> card, so my strong feelings are it will work as well. The ATI module
> is already included as part of our kernel, so if you should need to
> install the ATI drivers, you are half way there already. :o)
>
> Decide what you want to use and don't mix drivers! Gatos makes some
> fine drivers, but as Stan pointed out, they do not have full support.
> My opinion is to try everything as is and if that proves unacceptable,
> try the ATI drivers.
>
> Lee
> --
Lee makes good points about the non-AIW Linux drivers provided by ATI. They
are decent and allow 3D and everything BUT the AIW portion of those cards. My
8500DV AIW works great with them but I lose all AIW functionality under
Linux.
The TV chip of the AIWs may or may not be a standard TV part (BT828 and
others). It can't be accessed by YaST's TV Card detection & setup routines.
xawtv, motv, kwintv/Qtvision, etc are all unable to detect it and/or use it.
That is why I use the gatos drivers. They combine the graphics functionality
with the AIW capabilities. My 8500DV AIW is one that doesn't have 3D support
right now. It may in the future or I may have a dinosaur. Other ATI 9xxx
series have 3D support. Check the sight: http://gatos.sourceforge.net.
And this is my point about separate components for graphics and TV/FM/PVR. I
hope ATI will come forward with full AIW Linux support for the AIW series. If
they do it will probably only be for newest cards though.
Stan
-- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
- Previous message: Mads Martin Joergensen: "Re: [SLE] Other Mailing List"
- In reply to: BandiPat: "Re: [SLE] ATI 9800 All In Wonder Radeon video capture card -- working for anyone?"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Relevant Pages
|
|
