[mythtv-users] Barebones Systems - Opinions on the Pundit

Greg Woods greg at gregandeva.net
Wed Jan 11 19:21:53 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 12:31 -0500, Philip Isaacs wrote:

> Did  you have any trouble setting up the ATI video card under Linux?

None at all. You have to download the driver from the ATI web site and
run their configuration program.

> 
> I'm just curious because I heard mix reviews.

Most of the bad comments I've heard from people about ATI cards were
from those trying to do HD. The ATI drivers really have no support for
some of the hardware features of their card under Linux, which is why
you often hear people say you should use Nvidia instead of ATI for
Linux. But that's only true if you need top performance, as you would if
you wanted to display HD content. The ATI built-in on my ASUS Pundit-R
works fine for standard definition TV, I have never had any problems
with it.

--Greg




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