Regarding the Video card, I have a built by ATI Radeon 9600 pro which is working like a charm (check http://fedoranews.org/contributors/ for a faq I wrote about getting TV out working). I'd highly recommend this card for it's high performance and very nice price. The XT in my opinion isn't worth the extra money, but that's just me. For the TV tuner, be careful what you chose. I went out and bought an ATI TV wonder Pro remote control edition, turns out the new Pro tuners use a newer chip which isn't supported well yet (http://bytesex.org/cx88/). I am however working on getting the RF remote working (will post a faq), that should be very useful for a multimedia box. I'd Stick to older tuners using the bt848 and bt878 chips which are cheaper and very well supported via the bttv driver (like the regular ATI tv wonder). I wouldn't know much about Hauppage and others.
Hope that helps!
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 11:52, Coume - Lubox.com wrote:
Hello,
My ATI all-in-wonder (2years old model) died one week ago... R.I.P. But this decided to build a new computer from scratch, brand new and the most important only running linux... As this computer is aimed at being a "multimedia box", in fact it's in my room and it is my Tv (linked to my VHS player), DVD player, music player, etc.. I need to find hardware that are totally compatible with linux, and that's the more difficult thing to me :(
The most important one is the TV-tuner and the Video card...
Is one of you actually using a TV-tuner under linux? Which one would you advice me?? - good quality of tuner - The perfect thing would be with integrated MPEG2 encoding/decoding - with a TV-out and TV-in - a remote (integrated or an added one if it can work under linux)
Any advice and experiences with your TV-tuner and video cards, the one to avoid or the one to buy! Feel free to let me know :)
Thxs in advance Ludo
Did you get 3d working properly with your ATI 9600. I gave up on the ATI and purchased a NVidia.
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