Thanks for the reply, Seppo.  I'm on very unfamiliar territory here.  
I don't play games, so I've never kept up with what is happening on 
the graphics card scene, and I sometimes get caught out with the fact 
that names/phrases used don't always mean what I thought they mean 
<g>

Graphics acceleration is only important in so far as it is used in dvd 
playback - and my old Matrox G400 handles that satisfactorily.  Since 
the 9200 is not mentioned in the 'families' on the ATi website, 
should I expect that it will function satisfactorily in basic 
graphics, though not necessarily giving much in the way of 
acceleration, rather like my current card?

For 'video capture' they are recommending the TVWonder and TVWonder 
VE.  When they talk about 'video capture' are they meaning capture 
from tv signals?  Although nice, this is not important to me, but I 
do want to be able to capture video from my camcorder.  I see that 
they say that video4linux2 is needed for video capture, and gatos for 
dvd playback.

I would be grateful for any advice from you or anyone else with more 
experience of video card and video capture, as I am completely out of 
my depth here.

Anne

On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 6:18 am, Seppo Jarvinen wrote:
> I use Radeon All-In-Wonder with all functions available.
>
> you need to use Gatos project drivers to get everything working.
>
> http://gatos.sf.net/
>
> On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 22:34, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > The tv card that I was going to buy turned out not to have any
> > s-video input.  I took it back to the vendor, who said they
> > didn't have one that I could use (I want to attach my camcorder),
> > and suggested changing my graphics card to a Radeon 9200
> > Atlantis.  He said that one of their employees had said that he
> > had used this card with linux - but I have looked at the ATi site
> > and there is no linux driver for this model.  Is anyone using it?
> >
> > Anne
> >
> >
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