[mythtv-users] OT: gatos drivers being folded into xorg

[Joel Anderson]

> hi,
> 
> I recently read that the good folks over at xorg are
> folding in the gatos drivers for the next release of
> xorg.  there may even already be a xorg release
> candidate out that supports this.  It seems it will
> not have tv out support though.  Does anyone know more
> about this?
> 
> Otherwise, but has anyone gotten gatos work with xorg
> 6.8 on fedora core 3?  How about ATITVOUT:
> http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout/
> I have decided to roll up my sleeves and try getting
> an old radeon 7200 to work with SVideo out.

Good luck with that, but AFAIK it is a waste of time to try to get
tv-out on an ATI card older than a 9xxx.  I have tried a few, most
recently with an 8500, and even with the new release from ATI the
tv-out is a no-go.

Maybe you will have better luck, but I recommend just going with even
a cheap nvidia card.  Their drivers are very easy to install, and the
tv-out is easy to get working by adding a few lines to the xorg.conf.

HTH,
-- 
Joel