hi, CR writes: > I'm not sure where you're getting the "no on makes good accelerated > s-video for Linux", any new ATI or nVidia card has TV-out support in Linux > (by using the vendors proprietary driver). I would warn against ATI chipsets. My radeon 9200 has been just dropped out of support by the proprietary driver. The last version (that still works with my current kernel) does not support XV, Xorg, and TVout combination (shows only the top half of the picture), so I have to use Xshm (and waste natural resources, not to mention CPU cooler humming). And the Xorg open driver does not give TVout. The next time I would upgrade kernel, the card would become garbage. And it was not possible to upgrade to the newest kernel, as typically the proprietary driver would support it a month or two later. So kernel upgrading is two phase: download the source package, then wait for a couple of months, download the ATI driver, then compile and install. I guess I would prefer to buy a new flat TV with VGA input instead of another graphics card. At least: no ATI any more. yours, Jouni
