Redhat and graphics cards

Kevin Brown plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 01 Jun 2003 10:51:11 -0700


> 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 :).