[H-GEN] video card with tv out

Marco Grigull kni501ss at optushome.com.au
Sun Feb 16 22:54:25 EST 2003


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On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:09:52 +1000
Stuart Longland <stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org> wrote:

> I'm using an ATi Radeon 7000 (64MB AGP) quite happily under Linux here.
> ~ The framebuffer can sometimes be a pain, but you only need that if you
> want to run a text mode of 1024x768 like I do.  (at the moment, it's
> 640x480 until I can be bothered determining the kernel parameter to
> change it).
> 
> I've never succeeded in getting OpenGL to work, which is a bummer when
> playing Quake II and anything else requiring 3D, but I think this is
> more my configuration, I'll have to look closely at the documentation on
> the DRI website.
> 

I had loan of an ATI radeon all-in-wonder a little while back.  I did try compiling up gatos
for the tv functions but didnt have much luck at that stage.  I did however get mesa3d to work
quite nicely, out of the box(debian).  I still have the xcfg lying around...


Marco

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