[plug] ATI Radeon

[Leon Brooks]

navarre at plug.linux.org.au wrote:
> I am using the ATI all_in_wonder 128 16MB video card with the video
> capture and TV tuner quite happily under Linux and SVGA server 3.3.9. But
> only as a video card, the other things are not yet supported under linux
> so I use Winblows to view my DVDs, capture video and watch TV.

Rumour has it that these things (possibly except the tuner) are supported under
XFree86 4.0.1, at least by the packages included in Mandrake 7.2. I can ask the
development list about specific cards if you like (such as BigBadBill's proposed
Radeon). In fact, I've just done so. (-:

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