[mythtv-users] ATI All-in-Wonder

[Phill Wiggin]

If you care to see my response:

>You asked if an AIW would work, even after seeing a very specific statement on 
>the MythTV site saying they don't. Yes, you found reports about TV Wonder 
>cards working, but they're irrelevant when you're talking about an AIW. This 
>question has been asked on the list over and over again, and the answer is 
>always no, an AIW won't work. I even recall seeing technical details on why 
>that is the case, both on the list and on the web.
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I didn't find any technical details on the web, nor did I find anything 
about the original AIW not working.  I saw information on later cards 
not working.  I had just held on to the fleeting hope that it wasn't 
mentioned because almost noone really thought to try it.  I appologize 
for having the audacity to ask a specific question when I hadn't found 
any specific answer.

>The "You're a schmuck" treatment, as you call it, stems from a lack of 
>patience on the part of people fed up over rehashing the same repeated 
>questions that have already been answered. 
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Again, I didn't find any posts in the archive that had to do with the 
original AIW, just newer cards.  I admit, I stopped searching after 
digging through several months of the archives, so I could have just 
missed it.  This is a pretty meaty list after all.

>Nobody is here to hold your hand, 
>nobody has to be polite, nobody is required to answer your beckon call, but 
>generally, everyone is very cordial and helpful. However, when you ask the 
>list something that has already been beaten like a dead horse, don't expect 
>warm fuzzies. At least you got an answer, and from several people to boot.
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At no point have I asked anyone to hold my hand.  I've suffered through 
Gentoo installs in silence, I've re-installed Fedora Core, and 
troubleshot my own problems.  I simply wanted a quick "Yes", "No", or 
"Sorry, doesn't work".  I wasn't expecting to become a whipping boy for 
asking a simple question that I couldn't find a specific answer to.

>This is highly recommended reading:
>http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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Read it already.

Again, I freely admit I read the blanket statement that "No AIW cards 
work", but I figured if the newer cards had been discussed so much, it 
wouldn't hurt to ask if the community knew whether this one worked. I 
wasn't asking how to _make_ it work; I'd deal with that myself as much 
as possible.

Regardless of the tone of the responses I recieved, I thank those of you 
who responded (at least for the response to the question, not the 
back-hand that came with it).

--PW