[mythtv-users] ATI All-in-Wonder
Phill Wiggin
alamar at llamamuds.com
Fri Feb 20 21:41:30 EST 2004
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.
>
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
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