Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:59:16 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@LUCIDA.CA> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video Capture/TV cards -- reports from the field Message-ID: <15043.27108.175286.740038@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <15713713@toto.iv>
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Matt Heckaman <matt@LUCIDA.CA> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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