[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Video Cardsa and TV Out

[Stuart Johnston]

Make sure you use an S-Video cable for the connection.  I surf the web 
on my TV and with the S-Video it is easily readable (with an old ATI card).


Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> This is mostly off topic unless I decided to see if I
> can get the new Unreal 2004 game to run on linux....
> 
> An XBOX is basically a PC. How does it get graphics
> to show up good on a standard TV when PC Video out
> cards do such a poor job. Or do the newer video
> cards with TV out do a better job than they used to?
> 
> I'd like to move a PC into the TV room and use it
> to play games and surf the net on the TV. but I just
> remember how bad the TV out used to be. Has it gotter
> better?
> 
> Now to move this to more of a linux discussion... if
> I do want to try and get a video card doing TV Out...
> do the linux xwindows Radeon 9XXX drivers support
> TV out or am I going to have to do some software
> updates and what not just to see what the picture
> will look like.