From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri May 2 23:12:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA14881 for multimedia-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 23:12:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from u1.farm.idt.net (root@u1.farm.idt.net [169.132.8.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA14875 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 23:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sequoia (ppp-7.ts-1.mlb.idt.net [169.132.71.7]) by u1.farm.idt.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id CAA10880; Sat, 3 May 1997 02:09:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <336AD71F.41C67EA6@idt.net> Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 02:11:43 -0400 From: "Gary T. Corcoran" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Amancio Hasty CC: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATI TV References: <199705030401.VAA19431@rah.star-gate.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >From The Desk Of Joao Carlos Mendes Luis : > > Hi, > > > > Are there any plans to make a driver for ATI TV ? Amancio Hasty wrote: > > Try to find out the chipset . > I just bought one of these (destined for my Win95 machine). There is no "chipset". It is an ISA plug-in card, which, however, only connects to power and ground. It connects via a private cable to an ATI card with an "AMC" (ATI Media Connector). The tuner is a Philips can that looks just like the Temic/Philips tuners on the cards you've been developing for. But since the interface to them must be ATI proprietary, a FreeBSD driver for the ATI TV tuner would take a lot of 'investigating'... > Also, try to consider the Bt848 based cards such as WinCast TV which we > do support rather nicely. > If I was buying a board to use with FreeBSD, I'd go with one of those (Bt848-based cards) [I already have a TV next to my FreeBSD machine :-)] Gary