Mihnea-Costin Grigore writes: > > Hello everyone! > > I've just discovered that TV-Output from Linux using a GeForce2 card > looks great on my TV (had some previous attempts, but the results were too > bad to even consider the option)... Therefore, I would like to build a > system to watch DivX and the like on TV (and use it only for that), but a > GeForce card would be a terrible waste for this purpose. So here is my > question: > > Does anybody know of a cheap (<50$) graphics card with TV-Out, that is > well supported in Linux (i.e. it has a similar TV quality to the > NVidia/ATI boards)? Of course, it would be great if it had some video > inputs as well, but I think I would be asking for too much :) > If you can get an old voodoo3 card from somewhere, they also work fine under X11 with TV out. Steven Davies has a nice patch for lmsensors to enable a 720x576 mode. I tried to get it to work with framebuffer and consequently DirectFB, but the mode only seems to work in X11. I tried setting the mode for framebuffer, but there always remained some jitter effect. My brother still had the original sources for the module that ended up in lmsensors, so we changed it to support the new mode without needing to install lmsensors. The modules is loaded and immediatly exist again, so you have only the switching of the mode, without it remaining resident. It is kind of a hack, but saves some memory and you don't need all the lmsensors stuff. We also found a cheap radeon card (about $80) which is supposed to be supported for TV-out by the Gatos drivers, but we haven't gotten around to building the X11 with the Gatos CVS patches yet. Marcus
