[mythtv-users] Re: Savage IX card...

Sun Aug 3 23:32:34 EDT 2003

on 7/29/03 23:38, Omer Shenker at mail at omershenker.net wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:04:18 -0400 Steven Sartorius wrote:
>> Anybody know if a (and I'm quoting from the E-bay
>> description) "Savage IX
>> chipset 8MB AGP Video Card w/ TV-Out " card will work in
>> MythTV?  They're
>> going for $5.99 on E-bay....
> 
> Steve,
> 
> It will work, BUT:
> 
> 1) Last time I checked, XF86 doesn't support the XVideo extension on that
> card, which means video playback will take _much_ more CPU than it should.
> 

For the record, I have managed to get this card to work in an (old) Epox
EP-7KXA motherboard using the Debian package savage driver and the s3switch
utility from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html.  XVideo support does
work when the card is in TV-out mode.  Not bad for $6.00......

Steve