Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 02, 2006 01:29 AM
2007 is a very nice update to the mandriva distribution with the inclusion of X v7.1 though I am now on my third or fourth install of it in my normal process of learning and reinstalling until I get everything just right.
After two weeks of running it as my primary workstation OS my only issue remains ATI tuner support. I've scavenged the forums and google results reading about ATI proprietary drivers, Gatos, ATI.2, km. Each post claims the easy five steps to config and yet seems to leave out some mystic and arcane half step someplace. Each time I go through the steps AVview installs, X 7.1 proclaims to have ATI.2 in the kernel and AVview either crashes when opened or displays nothing seeming to indicate no link to the hardware.
I've tried the ATI proprietary and in a word; Slow. It makes me happy to learn that ATI handed over spec data to the Gatos project. It would be even better to find out they donated some ATI developer time to putting the extra functions in the Gatos driver or cleaning the proprietary binary so it doesn't feel like your watching the screen through a fishbowl.
This is not a help forum hijacking, just one users years old unresolved symptom of a bigger Linux issue. The last time my All In Wonder's tuner chip worked in linux was Mandrake 9 before Gatos merged into the X project.
I'd be obliged if anyone had recommended sites or could suggest what the preferred tv tuner for linux is these days? I've been an ATI faithful since my first self built but I'm starting to foresee my next build being an nVidia with a Hauppauge tv tuner separate. But is Hauppauge what everyone is using these days? Based on the democracy of active projects; it's not ATI.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 02, 2006 01:29 AMAfter two weeks of running it as my primary workstation OS my only issue remains ATI tuner support. I've scavenged the forums and google results reading about ATI proprietary drivers, Gatos, ATI.2, km. Each post claims the easy five steps to config and yet seems to leave out some mystic and arcane half step someplace. Each time I go through the steps AVview installs, X 7.1 proclaims to have ATI.2 in the kernel and AVview either crashes when opened or displays nothing seeming to indicate no link to the hardware.
I've tried the ATI proprietary and in a word; Slow. It makes me happy to learn that ATI handed over spec data to the Gatos project. It would be even better to find out they donated some ATI developer time to putting the extra functions in the Gatos driver or cleaning the proprietary binary so it doesn't feel like your watching the screen through a fishbowl.
This is not a help forum hijacking, just one users years old unresolved symptom of a bigger Linux issue. The last time my All In Wonder's tuner chip worked in linux was Mandrake 9 before Gatos merged into the X project.
I'd be obliged if anyone had recommended sites or could suggest what the preferred tv tuner for linux is these days? I've been an ATI faithful since my first self built but I'm starting to foresee my next build being an nVidia with a Hauppauge tv tuner separate. But is Hauppauge what everyone is using these days? Based on the democracy of active projects; it's not ATI.
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