Re: Distro with Gatos for Radeon or R128?

From: catimimi (catimimi_at_libertysurf.fr)
Date: 06/25/04

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    Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:02:15 +0200

    "Tim Beattie" <no.replies@here.com> a écrit dans le message de
    news:mRTCc.37$cs3.21@newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net...
    > Is there a distro in which TV tuner support for the ATI AIW Radeon DDR
    > 32MB or AIW 128 Pro cards works pretty much out-of-the-box? I'm
    > perfectly willing to wield apt-get, rpm, or anything similar.
    >
    > I've been trying to get Gatos to work for several years now (ok, trying
    > occasionally, not continuously ;) and I've had no luck with any of my
    > PCs with any of the distros I've tried - RedHat, Debian, Mandrake,
    > Knoppix, Peanut, Vector, Slax, Dyne, with either an All-In-Wonder Radeon
    > 32MB DDR or an AIW 128 Pro.

    Did you visit http://gatos.sourceforge.net

    Years ago, while I was a newbie, I happened to get my ATI AIW128
    to work with 3D. It was quite easy. I don't know a distro with 3D ATI
    in the box. These was a very useful nwsgroup.

    If you don't succeed, I'll try to find how to succeed in my archives.

    Michel.

    >
    > Most of the how-tos and guides I've found involve lots of complicated or
    > fiddly steps, like rebuilding X from source, or copying binaries around.
    > Aside from the fact that something usually seems to go wrong or it
    > just doesn't work, it irks me that I have to make the system messy by
    > making changes outside the package management system of whichever distro
    > I'm using at the time.
    >
    > It's very frustrating when lspci tell me my card is there and happy, but
    > gatos's bits just say, "No ATI PCI/AGP Cards ?"
    >
    > TIA for any help.
    >

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