[mythtv-users] No ATI support for Myth says AMD

[Joe Votour]

> On 04/11/2007 12:04 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
>> I suspect AMD/ATI just doesn't want to get into the quagmire that
>> would result from trying to "support" Linux.
>
> Did everyone actually read the info in the link (here, again, for
> convenience,
> http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=26907
> )?  It doesn't look to me like a press release or any other type of
> corporate communication providing direction or roadmap or anything else.
>
> To me, it seems to simply say, "MythTV uses features that we don't
> currently provide."  Where's the part saying, "We don't plan to provide
> these features..." or "We do not support Linux..." or whatever?
>
> Mike

As I said in another post, I did read it, and I actually sent in a comment
regarding it, asking for clarification on exactly what they don't support.
 To me, it looks like they just received a lot of questions on this
"MythTV" thing, and decided to say that they don't support it in general,
just to stop the flow of questions.

I suspect if they actually made the KB entry more technical, it would
likely say that they don't support XvMC, or some GL extension necessary
for the compositing window managers, or recording from the Rage Theater
chip in Linux on the AIW models.  I would like to see them explain in
detail what they don't support, and hopefully a time frame for when it
will be supported.

But, without that information, I can't really decide on what video card to
put in my desktop (which will be XP now, but as Vista starts to sink it's
teeth more and more, will likely lean more towards Linux).

-- Joe


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