On Monday 20 January 2003 08:58 am, Dave Laird wrote: > Good morning, everyone... > > 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. > I know this isn't what you are going to want to hear, but I've had Hauppauge PCI TV cards (Actually I have 3 of them currently) and I've had the ATI all in wonder radeon and a newer one a few months ago. I've had nothing but trouble with the ATI cards. I've had them in 4 different computers, XP, ME, and 98. Drivers don't matter. I had it up and running in Linux 8.2, but it is was just flat erratic and unstable. Support for ATI sucks big time. Ever try to call those folks? I've fought with ATI products for 2 years now. I will never go back. I now have NVIDIA chipset video card and HAUPPAUGE tv card and have no problems at all in any OS I've choses so far.
I fairness I think the worst thing is their drivers, but who knows. Good luck man. > Dave
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