Redhat and graphics cards

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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: Redhat and graphics cards
> Okay I've had RedHat 8.0 on my test box long enough to feel okay with it
> and I'm thinking of upgrading all of my computers. Is there any
> compelling reason why I should upgrade to 9.0 instead? Then I just got
> the ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON 8500DV Card this has a tv card and comes
> with a remote. Anyone know if I'll be able to do any of the kewl things
> it does (record digtial tv etc...) on Linux or even if I can just play
> 3D games with it?


Check out Freevo or MythTV for use as a PVR with that card. I'm looking into
getting a PVR350 from Hauppauge since it comes with a builtin mpg2
encoder/decoder that MythTV can use to offset the encoding to for making
recordings :).