Wow. You would like to pay for a top-end 3D acceleration card but only seek to use the 2D rendering? I would think that you would do quite well to simply stick with Matrox or lower end ATI or NVidia cards with decent memory (say 64 MB) and you would be set for all 2D and DVD viewing. It seems such a waste of money to buy something like a (weakly supported) ATI 9200 and only use the simple 2D acceleration it offers.
praedor --- Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > >_____ > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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