On Wednesday 09 Jul 2003 11:37 am, Seppo Jarvinen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 11:58, Anne Wilson wrote: > > The basic Radeon driver in Mandrake does not include DRI (Direct > Rendering Interface) , but it is not needed for DVD playback as the > function is Hardware, not software in Radeons, so it's > automatically used. > That looks hopeful.
> Mind you, installing the Gatos drivers is easy, getting DRI to work > is not. Basically you need to compile one driver + edit some files > since Mandrake for some reason DOES NOT load AGPGART... > Is DRI trying to do what DirectX does? That's what it sounds like to me. > > 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. > > You probably need the gatos project drivers to get videocapture > working, make sure that the card you buy includes VIDEO-IN / > VIDEO-OUT. > The 9200 is vivo. Thanks, Seppe Anne
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