[ILUG] Spacewalker SV24

[Cormac McGuinness]

Hi
Currently running Linux (Debian woody) on just such a machine.
Very linux friendly though for XFree86 v4.1 you will run into trouble 
unless you use the driver from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html

I have been meaning to test the S-video and TV-out but havent yet,
there is a switch utility at the above web page.
So the TV out is supported but I cant say yet if it works ! :)

As for the firewire I hope to be trying that out next week.

Cormac

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:59:20PM +0000, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> 
> Just doing a bit of homework on this cool little ATX-Flex system  Granted
> it's not exactly a high performance machine, but cuold be very handy and
> make a very nice little multi-media station for browsing, dvds, mp3s etc.
> 
> http://www.hwextreme.com/reviews/barebones/sv24/index.shtml
> 
> One thing I'm unsure about is the 
> 
> * Onboard Savage4 2D/3D Graphic Card
> * S-video and TV-out
> 
> I've noticed the Savage4 Beta drivers for X.  
> 
> http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?1530
> 
> I'm wondering though
> 
> a) how well supported is this card?
> 
> b) os the tv out supported and does it work
> 
> It'd be a crappy card by the looks of things for games, but fine for using
> a TV for browsing and general other stuff.  I've thought as well of getting
> a PCI graphics card with TV Out (the ATI Radeon AIW PCI springs to mind).
> However, if linux'd work without I'd forgo the expense of an extra vga card 
> for now.  
> 
> Also, anyone used firewire with linux?  How well does that work at this
> point?
> 
> Gavin