[Tfug] Can somebody point me to the new ATI linux drivers

Nicolas Lopez tfug@tfug.org
Sat Dec 7 13:30:02 2002


On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 12:12:06AM -0700, Jeremy Gregorio wrote:
>    Thanks guys, but I think I'm gonna turn tail and run back to my 
> GeForceMX. I can happily give up 3D gaming (I'm mostly playing console 
> games lately) but I couldn't get DVD playback to work very well with the 
> card, and that was kinda the whole point. I'll hold out for a cheap DDR 
> Radeon. Thanks again guys :)
  This is the same Rage128 we just talked about, right? They've had hardware
colorspace conversion for ages.  A PII/300 should be able to keep up with a
DVD once you have the colorspace conversion handled.
 
  nVidia will do much worse unless you do the right incantations to get
their "magic binary goo" to work.

> p.s. what linux DVD players are ppl using lately. I've had varying 
> degrees of success with both xine and ogle, but haven't really tried 
> MPlayer or vln (video for linux's dvd player, I think it's called vln)?
  Xine, ogle, mplayer, vlc depending on while one I havn't broken at the
time.

  - Nick Lopez
    kimo_sabe@atdot.org
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