[mythtv] MythTV with Radeon 8500DV?

GrandMasterLee mythtv-dev@snowman.net
10 Oct 2002 22:03:20 -0500


On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:28, William X Walsh wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 16:17, Johan Kohler wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried to get MythTV to work with the Radeon 8500DV?
> > > ....
> > > I'm prepared to go with a Hauppauge WinTV PCI card, and just 
> > > use the integrated audio, if the 8500DV wouldn't work in this 
> > > regard.....
> > 
> > An alternative is to use a USB sound card.
> > The sound blaster extigy comes to mind.
> 
> Yeah, I had thought about that before, but....
> 
> Support for the extigy device is so minimal in linux right now, that I'd
> get no better sound from it than I would from the integrated audio
> chipset really.  Creative isn't supporting it with linux at all right
> now. There is an unsupported driver providing very limited support for
> it, and that's it.  You can't even play 44.1Khz audio files to it. 

In 2.5 ALSA, I believe it's fully supported. Though, it *is* 2.5, just
FYI. --The GrandMaster