Since the onboard video of my SFF PC is rather crappy (It's S3 Prosavage8), I'm looking at getting a proper video card for my "Freevo Box". While I could whack in a low-end NVidia GeForce card, and be pretty comfortable that the TV out will be decent, I've also decided that I'd like the PC to double as a normal PC games machine. That means dual-booting into a Windows variant for games (or using WineX or similar).
Either way, I'm looking for a card which: *Works well under Linux for Freevo purposes (decent TV out, hardware scaling support, etc...) *Will give me shiny Half-Life 2 support, when the game is finally released. ^_^ Given the latter, I'm considering an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro series of card, since they're reasonably priced, and have good grunt for HL2 (and other 3D games). However, I'm very wary of ATI's linux support - and yet, looking at the ATI site, I find they've released a linux driver 3.2.8, which, mentioned in the documentation, supports TV out! I also remember reading previously somewhere that ATI framebuffer support is very good for Freevo. So, my question is, is the ATI support up to scratch these days? Would it be better to set up X for Freevo, or go with the framebuffer? Will TV Out for both be supported? How does ATI compare to NVidia for Freevo purposes? (And as an aside, how does the 3.2.8 driver 3D support compare to Windows performance, quality & features?) Thanks... -- . Trevor Phillips - http://jurai.murdoch.edu.au/ . : Web Technical Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] : | IT Services - Murdoch University | >--------------------------------------------------------------------< | On nights such as this, evil deeds are done. And good deeds, of / | course. But mostly evil, on the whole. / \ -- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters) / ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
