Thats exaggerating. I have an ATI 7500 AIW in my mythbox. I won't say it was easy but I was able to make it work as a headless TV-out only machine using the GATOS drivers. Unfortunately I never got the TV-in tuner to work with myth so I bought a WinTV Go card for that part. I got X running quite some time ago so its still running XFree86 4.3 or so with the GATOS TV-out drivers plus I got a patch from someone on the Gatos mailing list to make it ignore the fact that there was no monitor attached (other than the TV).
On the other hand if I was buying parts for a new machine I'd definitely go with an older Nvidia card as its much easier to get working properly, YMMV. Paul On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:59 -0500, Joel Anderson wrote: > > hi, > > > > I recently read that the good folks over at xorg are > > folding in the gatos drivers for the next release of > > xorg. there may even already be a xorg release > > candidate out that supports this. It seems it will > > not have tv out support though. Does anyone know more > > about this? > > > > Otherwise, but has anyone gotten gatos work with xorg > > 6.8 on fedora core 3? How about ATITVOUT: > > http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/ > > I have decided to roll up my sleeves and try getting > > an old radeon 7200 to work with SVideo out. > > Good luck with that, but AFAIK it is a waste of time to try to get > tv-out on an ATI card older than a 9xxx. I have tried a few, most > recently with an 8500, and even with the new release from ATI the > tv-out is a no-go. > > Maybe you will have better luck, but I recommend just going with even > a cheap nvidia card. Their drivers are very easy to install, and the > tv-out is easy to get working by adding a few lines to the xorg.conf. > > HTH, > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users -- Paul Gratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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