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

[Paul Gratz]

Thats exaggerating. I have an ATI 7500 AIW in my mythbox. I won't say it
was easy but I was able to make it work as a headless TV-out only
machine using the GATOS drivers.  Unfortunately I never got the TV-in
tuner to work with myth so I bought a WinTV Go card for that part.  I
got X running quite some time ago so its still running XFree86 4.3 or so
with the GATOS TV-out drivers plus I got a patch from someone on the
Gatos mailing list to make it ignore the fact that there was no monitor
attached (other than the TV). 

On the other hand if I was buying parts for a new machine I'd definitely
go with an older Nvidia card as its much easier to get working properly,
YMMV.
Paul



On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:59 -0500, Joel Anderson wrote:
> > 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,
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Paul Gratz <pgratz at gratz1.com>
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