I for one would love to hear how you got ATIs to work under Mandrake. I used an old Rage AIW years ago with small problems but when I went to install software for a Radeon 7500 AIW I felt myself slipping down a DRM path upon which I would prefer not to go.
I have been following VideoLAN for a couple of years and never found the motivation to overcome the initial obstacles. I see lots of applications for classroom use. Jim Tarvid On Wednesday 22 January 2003 10:03 am, Dave Laird wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Good morning, Lorne... > > On Tuesday 21 January 2003 07:23 pm, Lorne wrote: > > I hate to disparidge ATI. I DID use an ATI card for about year. It was > > always a fight though. My XP box hung on a regular basis. I initially > > blamed the other hardware. After an annoying 6 months, I tried it on my > > wife's machine. Same thing. It was a Dell dude. I then tried it on my > > son's > > After reading about the number of "incompatibility issues" (translated to > mean it doesn't work with this platform) and trying it initially with XP, I > finally dumped XP entirely and stuck with Windows 98. This was, of course, > just shortly after XP arrived. *Never*, ever ever use a Microsoft product > when it is a relative newcomer. You have to wait for the patches and > upgrades to arrive before you can use it. <sly grin> > > > machine. Even worse. Bought complete new hardware. Newer machine for > > poppa. > > > > :) Same crap, except MUCH MUCH worse. I of course blamed it on the > > > > motherboard. Took it back and got another. Same thing. Changed > > motherboard brands. I mean BAD! By this time, I'm starting to doubt that > > everybody is wrong but ATI. I bumped into a young fellow at the computer > > store and he about spit out his soda when I said I was trying to use ATI. > > He said Nvidia was the way to go. I knew from past experience that > > Hauppage was good, so returned the ATI card, got the original MB back, > > got a T4400? Nvidia card with 128mb of ram and BAM! Not a whit of > > problems since. So there you have > > See? If I had discovered this forum before now, I would have already made > the transition to Hauppage a long time ago. However, through patching and > perseverence, I now have the ATI All-in-Wonder-Pro AGP working fine under > Linux. If anyone else wants to know the mystical secrets to success, I'll > post them here, otherwise keep them to myself. (It takes less than five > minutes, based upon my experience). > > > my tail of woe. I don't know if they take short cuts with their stuff, > > but if you look at their drivers, they are constantly updating fixing, > > fixing again, updating.... What is wrong with this picture? Folks are > > having grief with them! I just don't have the time or patience anymore. > > Were it not for getting it work under Linux, it would have gone into the > rather large box in the closet marked "FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT" written on > the outside. Migod, there are things in that box I haven't even *touched* > in over five years. Some development process, huh? 8-> > > > Do they work. yes, but how stable are they? I'm sure that on some > > combinationof hardware they are wonderful. But this is my experience. Of > > course I'm glad you had a good experience with tech support. I sure hope > > they have improved from what I got. They won't last long if they don't > > get it together. IMHO. > > You are quite right. I got lucky the one time, but since I am considering > building a really high-end workstation by the beginning of spring, you can > bet I will be purchasing a Hauppage TV card to go with it for my own use. > Getting the ATI working for a customer actually *addicted* me to television > and video on the desktop. > > However, to avoid the moderator's wrath, perhaps we should start a > scholarly discussion of how to get streaming video working under Mandrake > Linux and KDE, perhaps. I still haven't begun to explore/exploit that one > yet, as I understand it requires a kernel patch, something I'm *never* fond > of doing unless it is mandatory. 8-) What the heck, the week's young, isn't > it? 8-) > > Dave > - -- > Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project > Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/20/2003 > Year 2 of running Mandrake Linux workstation on a 100% Microsoft-free > system. > > An automatic & random thought For the Minute: > marriage, n.: > Convertible bonds. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+LrLGaE1ENZP1A28RAtGYAKC+oVp2+NnrnQ8SveG+eFwR3oeeQACeO+hf > mASwxCVSOjeQDfKV9S/Zrbs= > =iymU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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