--- Adam Bower abower@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, David Freeman wrote:
- Is it worth getting TV out on a graphics card? for a desktop
machine?
IMHO no, unless you want to watch DVDs on a larger screen etc. but I don't know if this is supported under Linux. I did have TV out on my last Nvidia TNT and never used it.
Sounds like its not worth the extra dosh then, my room is 7'^2 so I wont have anything bigger than my 15" monitor.
- How well is the geforce 2 MX supported on Linux?
I have a GeForce 2 GTS and all Nvidia cards later than the Riva128 are supported with hardware acceleration, BUT the drivers to do this are binary only (they work fine though) Nvidia will not open source them. There is an implementation built into XFree86 that supports them but no hardware acceleration == no Quake III.
When you say supported do you mean under X or as a kernel module of some sort? Also what about FB support?
- Are DVD rom drives fixed as a single region? if so how do I
unfix
it?
Yes, but you can unlock quite a few with a patch (a bit like a Bios update) I don't know where there is a site that tells you more, google might. If you do find more info let me know as I am also looking at some retail therapy!
Will do a search and let you know of the result.
- Do DVD rom drives have a S/PDIF output on the drive?
I would of thought that some do and some dont. Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Hmmm, I notice Xine can decode the output, te question is how I can output it, I think I will join th Xine mailing list and Ask them.
- Can any one recommend a cheap sound card which will give me 6
channel sound output from the DVD drive and allow me to output it
to my
surround amp?
Probably one of the cheap Creative Labs would do, again don't know really
Hmmm, more searching needed.
- What dvd decoding software would people recommend?
don't know :-(
Well I'm thinking Xine ATM, I am also thinkning of the dark side and upgrading from Peanut to debian, but not sure how great an idea this would really be.
My god I am soooo tempted to spend money at the moment! I am tempted by an Athlon 1.2Ghz 512Mb 2100DDR memory, motherboard and DVD drive along with a IBM UDMA100 60Gb hard disk and a Iiyama Vision master Pro 451 19" monitor, but I have to keep telling myself that I live in the real world and can't afford it......
Go on, you know you want it.
Thanks
D
PS I think rabbit did fall over based on some pinging and a bit og guess work, thanks to the techies who got it back on, who ever you are.
Adam PS also wanting to know if rabbit fell off the net? -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam
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