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Ray Olszewski wrote:<br>
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cite="mid5.1.0.14.1.20030423095111.01e9b830@celine">At 09:17 AM 4/23/2003
-0600, Eni Gma wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Yeah, I get fantastic Linux TV-out support with
my Savage 2000 cards (see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=58030"><http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=58030></a><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=58030">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=58030</a>),
but unfortunately the that chip has absolutely no XV support and is unusable
for MythTV. From the site you referenced above:<br>
"xvideo on the Savage2000 still seems to be broken. I don't know when I'll
be able to get around to this."<br>
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Could you describe the details? (Whatever special you had to do, maybe Modelines?)
It appears from your description that I have a different Savage 2000 than
you do (mine has 1 VGA outout and 1 TV-composite output, not the 2 composite
outputs you report). But your experience may apply to other Savage cards
that do not have the xVideo defect that ours do.<br>
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Heh, maybe my original post was unclear, I have 2 of the cards, not a card
with 2 composite outputs. I didn't use any special modelines, I was incredibly
impressed that it just worked under X. I used it in a freevo box for arond
3 months, using X11 as the output for mplayer. I decided to switch to MythTV
because it has a better feature set than freevo and I bought another savage
2k card in anticipation of this. However, once I installed MythTV I discovered
that I required XV support in order to function and so I pretty much had
to mothball those cards and go looking elsewhere for my TV support. The
second card I bought was slightly different than the first, but the TV output
works great on both of them under X. They are both generic Savage 2K cards
with 64 MB of memory. <br>
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If the Savage IX chipset will work under Linux for TV out and XV, there are
cards with S-Video out for $12.85 at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ASVGB1N-8MTV">http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ASVGB1N-8MTV</a>.
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Here are my experiences with the various cards I have:<br>
<font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="black"><font
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="black">S3 Savage 2000 64MB
Composite out - See above<br>
ATI Radeon 7500 Svid + Composite - No luck. Works in console mode but scrambles
under X. The atitvout program did not work for this card. </font></font><font
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="black"><font
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="black">Maybe with the ati.2
branch?</font></font><br>
<font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="black"><font
face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2" color="black">ATI Rage 128 SVid
+ Comp out, Comp in -- No luck, maybe with the ati.2 branch?<br>
ATI Rage II+DVD Svid + Composite </font></font>-- WORKING! See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/tvout.html">http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/tvout.html</a>.
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NVidia GeForce3 Ti 500 -- TV-Out working with drivers from NVidia's website.
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