From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 29 8:59:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C54A037B71D for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 58178 invoked by uid 100); 29 Mar 2001 16:59:16 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15043.27108.175286.740038@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:59:16 -0600 To: Matt Heckaman Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Capture/TV cards -- reports from the field In-Reply-To: <15713713@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Heckaman types: > The first card I'm looking at is the AIMS Video Highway XTreme 98, which > according to the bktr(4) man page, is known to work. I'd be interested to > hear about its quality though. > > The second is the ATI TV Wonder, which I could not determine if it is > compatible or not. This is the card I would rather pick up, so if anyone > knows on its status working/not, I'd love to hear :) > The ATI cards aren't supported in the core FreeBSD distribution. There's some userland code available from a third party; you'll have to look around for it. However, ATI tends to change chipsets without changing the card name, and that code didn't support all the available chipsets when I checked on it. I'd recommend sticking with the AIMS card. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message