-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Good morning, everyone...
Enough people showed an interest in my early experimentation with an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro TV card that I decided to wander a little further afield, and test another TV application under KDE 3.0. First, this time, I'll do the "right thing" and explain the sofware/hardware: Hardware: An anemic 500 mz Intel MB with 256 M of memory Two hard drives, one SCSI Jazz and a Zip drive tossed in for the hell of it. An ATI-AGP All-in-Wonder Pro card with 8 M of memory Software: Mandrake 8.0 upgraded several times to Mandrake 9.0 All the current ATI drivers from the Mandrake Mirrors installed The video card configured as an All-in-Wonder-Pro, not a Rage 128, which seems to be the default that Hardrake seems to prefer. Instaling the Software: 1 I downloaded the Gatos application from the mirrors 2 I also downloaded the library to satisfy dependencies libibtk0-0.0.14_pre2-13mdk.i586.rpm Then I fired off xaitv-conf to make sure the settings were sane enough for my rickety system and, incredibly enough, it works! Comments: Xaitv not only works better than Xawtv 'out of the box', as it comes up the first time with the audio on and the picture in place. It is also much more compliant when you have a number of other applications present on the desktop simultaneously. When you resize the TV screen, however, it undergoes a bit of what I might term instability, as the picture shakes and quakes like a mouse in the presence of a convention of eagles hungry for dinner. However, be patient. Eventually it resizes itself to the frame that you selected and all is once again well. Right-click anywhere on the screen to change your settings. All in all, this is a very robust little TV player, and it even does screen captures with v41, something that Xawtv won't do without a v42. Now I can pull the ATI card from my system and try out the new Hauppage card I bought last night. 8-) Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 Year 2 of running Mandrake Linux workstation on a 100% Microsoft-free system. An automatic & random thought For the Minute: Sum quod eris. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+MXHxaE1ENZP1A28RAuOoAKCYxMA3nZRu9Q7W6enXhNI5KOcPBgCfY5lO uLfBTse8SgxBwKyzzUcdhBs= =yPe+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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