On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 23:38:36 +0100
Pascal Terjan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> After someone reported on irc installing avview broke is X by installing 
> ati.2 while is card is not an ATI, I looked on the website and did not 
> found such a dependency :
> 
>     Requirements: TV input capable card with Xv support, Tcl/Tk 8.4.x or 
> later.
>                libzvbi from http://zapping.sf.net/
>                ffmpeg-0.4.6 from http://ffmpeg.sf.net/
> 
> So the ati.2 is only needed if you have an ATI which has no Xv without 
> it. I don't know what is the best solution but keeping non ATI drivers 
> would limit the impact of useless ati.2 installation.
> 
> 
Tcl/tk 8.4.x is only needed on avview newer than 10.8. Ati.2 was packaged so that if 
it did not help or give Xv support, it could be uninstalled and go back to the 
previous drivers. If someone installed ati.2 that didn't have an ATI video card, it 
would definitely not help. Putting a dependency on avview for ati.2 may not be the 
right solution but if too many problems occur, the dependency can be removed. Btw, 
ffmpeg is only needed for video capture and I have no intention of enabling it in 
avview before 9.1 final.

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