On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Dave Laird wrote: > I have a customer who, against my better judgement, runs an ATI All-in-Wonder > PCI TV card under Windows, and it works flawlessly using the default ATI > software. Despite my comments about "you are what you see" he consistently > spends 4-6 hours a day watching TV while doing various things in Windows. > > He can switch channels, grab picture frames from the TV, and all kinds of (I > suppose) really neat things. Having seen my Mandrake a time or two, and being > passably familiar with RedHat, he now wants to switch from Windows to Linux > for a variety of reasons. Then there is the issue of that blasted TV card, > and almost immediately I hit snags. > > Now I have invested over two days researching this matter, both on Mandrake > and in other venues. Has anyone actually gotten a TV card, particularly an > ATI-based card, actually working under Mandrake? Currently I am installing > 9.0 but I would change that if someone has actually gotten it to work with > another release. > My All-In-Wonder AGP 128 works fine for TV and Composite/SVGA In. Recording does not work reliably. Screen captures need to be converted using some sort of YUV utility which I've never gotten to work. Note: This is using an older version of the software shipped with Mandrake 8.2 boxed version.
Glitches: Channel changes cannot keep up with key presses so holding down a key to switch channels will lead to a few minutes of the software flipping channels until it catches up with the key presses. In some color modes there will be visual corruption of some window manager elements.
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