Hot to make ATI work?

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Fissile · Post by **Fissile** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 12:25 am

Hey all.. i have a ATI Tv Wonder, tv tuner, does anyone know what i can do to make it work.. i have checkout out the ati website they don't have drivers to run under linux.. has anyone had this problem before.. or can anoyone tell me how to get my tv working?

thxxxx...

MADcow · Post by **MADcow** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:34 am

you might try ati-drivers
or gatos
(both in portage)

i believe that ati offeres tvout support now, making gatos useless.
poke around emerge ati-drivers and emerge atitvout
also take a look here.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ati-faq.xml

keep in mind, i've never used my tvout...

MADcow · Post by **MADcow** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 1:38 am

oh yea, look here
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=73260

there is a whole section about tvout
cheers!

MasterX · Post by **MasterX** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 4:30 am

You have a tv card right?
If yes you need to load bttv module, search the forum for this module

MasterX · Post by **MasterX** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 4:31 am

MADcow wrote:oh yea, look here
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=73260

there is a whole section about tvout
cheers!

That would have be very usefull, if I had one of the cards that are supported

MADcow · Post by **MADcow** » Wed Dec 10, 2003 4:08 pm

would you mind telling us what card exactly?

Fissile · Post by **Fissile** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:17 am

yes.. i am not exactly very sure.. but it is a ATI TV-Wonder (http://www.ati.com/products/tvwonder/index.html)... and i did check out the 2 websites posted above.. the thing is i can no where locate the name of that card as being supported...
can somebody plz confirm that this ati-gatos thingy is compatible with my card.. and if it will make my tv tuner work or not... cause i dont' need it for graphic support.. i have a geforce2 which is working nicely for that purpose rite now..
thxxx

Fissile · Post by **Fissile** » Sat Dec 13, 2003 5:42 am

Can anyone atleast confirm for me.. that a tvtuner works under gentoo?

Fissile · Post by **Fissile** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 8:26 am

damn noone is responding... should i start an anohter post....? then administors will tell me not to repeat.. :p

mushroom blue · Post by **mushroom blue** » Sun Dec 14, 2003 10:35 pm

I have an ATI TV Wonder card.
works wonderfully in linux. in fact, the support is BETTER than in windowsXP, because I can use the card's audio. in windows, I used DScaler, and it didn't support ATI TV Wonder audio. so I had to output the sound to my stereo. kludgy, but it worked. and the regular ATI windows drivers were crap.

just make sure you enable the BTTV driver for Video4Linux in your kernel (I just compile mine in). once the kernel's taken care of, using the card is a breeze.

DO NOT use the gatos drivers. those are only for the All-In-Wonder series of cards. you don't need them. the brooktree bttv driver in the kernel is all you need.

also, check out http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=107816 for more help.

make sure you get tvtime and xawtv to test out with.

enjoy.

MasterX · Post by **MasterX** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:35 am

Suplementary to what mushroom blue said:

Before you load the bttv module, you need to load the tuner module.
Simple modprobe tuner type=2 (the type=2 is necessary)
Then load the bttv module, by running
modprobe bttv card=64

Finally, install xawtv or tvtime (is much much better)

Fissile · Post by **Fissile** » Mon Dec 15, 2003 2:08 am

thxx all i am trying them out rite now..

Hot to make ATI work?

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