I need advice about hardware :) Tv tuner, Video card,etc..

[Robin Laing]

Youssef Makki wrote:
> Regarding the Video card, I have a built by ATI Radeon 9600 pro which is
> working like a charm (check http://fedoranews.org/contributors/ for a
> faq I wrote about getting TV out working). I'd highly recommend this
> card for it's high performance and very nice price. The XT in my opinion
> isn't worth the extra money, but that's just me. For the TV tuner, be
> careful what you chose. I went out and bought an ATI TV wonder Pro
> remote control edition, turns out the new Pro tuners use a newer chip
> which isn't supported well yet (http://bytesex.org/cx88/). I am however
> working on getting the RF remote working (will post a faq), that should
> be very useful for a multimedia box.
> I'd Stick to older tuners using the bt848 and bt878 chips which are
> cheaper and very well supported via the bttv driver (like the regular
> ATI tv wonder). I wouldn't know much about Hauppage and others.
> 
> Hope that helps!
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 11:52, Coume - Lubox.com wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>My ATI all-in-wonder (2years old model) died one week ago... R.I.P.
>>But this decided to build a new computer from scratch, brand new and the
>>most important only running linux...
>>As this computer is aimed at being a "multimedia box", in fact it's in
>>my room and it is my Tv (linked to my VHS player), DVD player, music
>>player, etc..
>>I need to find hardware that are totally compatible with linux, and
>>that's the more difficult thing to me :(
>>
>>The most important one is the TV-tuner and the Video card...
>>
>>Is one of you actually using a TV-tuner under linux? Which one would you
>>advice me??
>>- good quality of tuner
>>- The perfect thing would be with integrated MPEG2 encoding/decoding
>>- with a TV-out and TV-in
>>- a remote (integrated or an added one if it can work under linux)
>>
>>Any advice and experiences with your TV-tuner and video cards, the one
>>to avoid or the one to buy! Feel free to let me know :)
>>
>>Thxs in advance
>>Ludo

Did you get 3d working properly with your ATI 9600.  I gave up on the 
ATI and purchased a NVidia.


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