[mythtv-users] Videocard recommendations

[Brian Wood]

Paul Harrison wrote:
> Michelle Dupuis wrote:
>> Hans
>>
>> Avoid ATI video cards.  I speak from experience (I'm still fighting with
>> mine).  Nvidia appears to have made a real effort to make their drivers work
>> under Linux.
>>
>> ATI has press releases going back to year 2000 exclaiming Linux support, but
>> it's still really buggy, frustrating, lacking features, etc.  Do a search
>> for ATI "Blue tint" and "smurf color" and "XvMC" and "libc crash" etc.
>>
>> MD
>>   
> Add dual head support to the list of what doesn't work as well.
> 
> http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=26907
> 
> Doesn't fill you with a great deal of confidence in ATI cards for use
> with MythTV does it? :-)

I think the people using ATI cards are the ones who "had one" to start
with, and were willing to tinker to get it working.

Certainly if you were buying a new video card for a MythTV system the
obvious choice would be an nVidia-based one.

BEWW