Re: Video card and CD-rom or CD_RW recommendations
On Aug 20 2001, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: Hi, Did you by any chance get your G400 to play DVD or DIVX out of the secondary head to a TV? If you did I would be very much interested in hearing how you did that. Unfortunately, my card is just a monohead with 16MB. But AFAIK, you wouldn't be able to, since the Linux drivers don't support that (I guess that this is due to the damn Macrovision rights). I've tried something similar to that with my notebook, which has an ATI Mobility LT board with TV Out and while playing DivX in Windows to the TV was fine (it was something that I had captured from a VHS tape and it seemed like the tape), under Linux I can only get the text-mode to play right on the TV. []s, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogério Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Re: Video card and CD-rom or CD_RW recommendations
* Rog?rio Brito ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Aug 20 2001, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: Hi, Did you by any chance get your G400 to play DVD or DIVX out of the secondary head to a TV? If you did I would be very much interested in hearing how you did that. Unfortunately, my card is just a monohead with 16MB. But AFAIK, you wouldn't be able to, since the Linux drivers don't support that (I guess that this is due to the damn Macrovision rights). I've tried something similar to that with my notebook, which has an ATI Mobility LT board with TV Out and while playing DivX in Windows to the TV was fine (it was something that I had captured from a VHS tape and it seemed like the tape), under Linux I can only get the text-mode to play right on the TV. []s, Roger... Darn, I can get dualhead working, but nowhere on the web could I find any info on how to send a videostream to the second head TV. Oh well, it's a small setback. Alex.
Re: Video card and CD-rom or CD_RW recommendations
On Aug 19 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: I am building a new computer (a first for me) and will be using an Abit KT7A motherboard with Athlon 1.3 Ghz cpu. Perhaps you'd like to see http://cr.yp.to/hardware/abit.html before purchasing your new motherboard. Be careful that VIA chipsets are an almost necessary evil if you go the AMD route: there are a lot of complaints of them in the Linux Kernel Mailing list these past months. Now, Alan Cox says that he discovered some contacts in VIA and that they're willing to help support VIA products with Linux in. Of course, you could buy a motherboard with an AMD chipset (like the 760 or the 760MP if you're into dual-processing), but you'll have a bit more of problems getting them from your local dealear than with a VIA board, since the AMD ones are more expensive and produced in lesser quantities. Personally, I'm using an Asus A7V purchased in December of 2000 with no problems. BTW, an advice: I have the impression (note that this is just my *impression* and not a fact) that the Promise controller embedded in my board is slighly better (and produces less load) than the VIA IDE controller controlling the same hard drive. To use the Promise controller (which supports UDMA 100), you'll either have to use a patch from André Hedrick www.linux-ide.org or use a recent (2.4) kernel. I would appreciate recommendations for a video card which could be auto detected or at least very easy to install for X window system. I must say that I think that this is one of the hardest parts in understanding and purchasing for anybody that is outside the scene. It took me months to understand only the minimum of specifications on sites like Tomshardware and Anandtech to decide where to spend my hard earned bucks with something that would work well with Linux (since that's the only operating system that I use). I think that you should get either a Matrox G400 (or G450) or, if you want better 3D performance and a bunch of other high-end features, an ATI Radeon (there are some value models of the ATI Radeon, but I don't know very much of their product lines). Both Matrox and ATI are reasonably open source-friendly (with some slight exceptions, mainly regarding TV Out) and these are the manufacturers with which you should make business. ATI, BTW, seems to be supporting many open source projects. Personally, I have a Matrox G400 and I'm satisfied with it, but I don't play games and don't know if they are good for those things. What I do care about is some good performance in 2D and playing videos (DIVX, DVDs). BTW, bear in mind that you won't be able to use these advanced cards in their full potential with the X servers that come with potato. You'll have to upgrade to woody at least (or use third party compiled packages of X 4.x) to use them well. I have tried installing a Linux drive for an NVIDIA Geforce GTS chip set on another machine without success. If you want to use an NVIDIA card, then you'll probably want to use X 4 with some binary drivers that NVIDIA makes available. Also I want to install a CD-WR internal or CD-rom it must be able to be bootable. Thanks. There are no problems with CD-ROM drives. Anything that speaks ATAPI (everything produced today) can be used with Linux. Regarding CD-RW drives, I have an HP9100 (doesn't do overburning) and I like it a lot. More than my old Ricoh. Regarding the video card one of the things I wish to do is edit video and convert analog vcr tapes to digital format movies ie mpeg. I've done this once a few weeks ago with a very precious video. Unfortunately, the card that I had wasn't supported by Linux and I had to install Windows *just* for this task (the card was borrowed from my uncle and I had to return him the card as soon as possible). It was doable and I converted the tape to DivX format. My Duron 600MHz had no trouble compressing what the card captured with the codec. The best part of this is that the video is fully playable in Linux and quite well, may I add. Using libavifile and friends (see sid), I am able to see the video under Linux, but MPlayer is a better AVI player for Linux. Will I need a seperate card for this pupose or can this be combined with card for monitor? I don't know. I used a separate card for this. Hope this (long e-mail) helps, Roger... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Rogério Brito - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: Video card and CD-rom or CD_RW recommendations
On Mon, 20 Aug 2001 02:38:02 -0300 Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 19 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: Also I want to install a CD-WR internal or CD-rom it must be able to be bootable. Thanks. There are no problems with CD-ROM drives. Anything that speaks ATAPI (everything produced today) can be used with Linux. Regarding CD-RW drives, I have an HP9100 (doesn't do overburning) and I like it a lot. More than my old Ricoh. I'd personally recommend mixing a DVD drive from AsusTek http://www.asus.com.tw/Products/dvdrom/dvd-e612/index.html with a CD-RW from Plextor http://www.plextor.com/english/products/product_cdrw_drives.html. Both function exquisitely and Asus DVD's are nearly inaudible. If you care more about performance than aesthetics you might want to check the leader board on storagereview.com at http://www.storagereview.com/articles/leaderboard.html
Re: Video card and CD-rom or CD_RW recommendations
* Rog?rio Brito ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Aug 19 2001, Abner Gershon wrote: I am building a new computer (a first for me) and will be using an Abit KT7A motherboard with Athlon 1.3 Ghz cpu. Perhaps you'd like to see http://cr.yp.to/hardware/abit.html before purchasing your new motherboard. Be careful that VIA chipsets are an almost necessary evil if you go the AMD route: there are a lot of complaints of them in the Linux Kernel Mailing list these past months. Now, Alan Cox says that he discovered some contacts in VIA and that they're willing to help support VIA products with Linux in. Of course, you could buy a motherboard with an AMD chipset (like the 760 or the 760MP if you're into dual-processing), but you'll have a bit more of problems getting them from your local dealear than with a VIA board, since the AMD ones are more expensive and produced in lesser quantities. Personally, I'm using an Asus A7V purchased in December of 2000 with no problems. BTW, an advice: I have the impression (note that this is just my *impression* and not a fact) that the Promise controller embedded in my board is slighly better (and produces less load) than the VIA IDE controller controlling the same hard drive. To use the Promise controller (which supports UDMA 100), you'll either have to use a patch from Andr? Hedrick www.linux-ide.org or use a recent (2.4) kernel. I would appreciate recommendations for a video card which could be auto detected or at least very easy to install for X window system. I must say that I think that this is one of the hardest parts in understanding and purchasing for anybody that is outside the scene. It took me months to understand only the minimum of specifications on sites like Tomshardware and Anandtech to decide where to spend my hard earned bucks with something that would work well with Linux (since that's the only operating system that I use). I think that you should get either a Matrox G400 (or G450) or, if you want better 3D performance and a bunch of other high-end features, an ATI Radeon (there are some value models of the ATI Radeon, but I don't know very much of their product lines). Both Matrox and ATI are reasonably open source-friendly (with some slight exceptions, mainly regarding TV Out) and these are the manufacturers with which you should make business. ATI, BTW, seems to be supporting many open source projects. Personally, I have a Matrox G400 and I'm satisfied with it, but I don't play games and don't know if they are good for those things. What I do care about is some good performance in 2D and playing videos (DIVX, DVDs). Hi, Did you by any chance get your G400 to play DVD or DIVX out of the secondary head to a TV? If you did I would be very much interested in hearing how you did that. Cheers, Alex.
