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Re: video capture under linux

From: Dan Ritter <>
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 10:17:35 -0400

At 06:53 AM 19990506 -0700, Joseph Osako wrote:
>At 11:43 PM 5/5/99 -0400, Tim Gray wrote:
>>ATI tv cards are not supported under linux.. ATI flatly refuses to release
>>any information to the linux community. in fact the video4linux site has a
>>notice to not buy any ATI cards for that exact reason.
>>
>>This was a while ago... maybe they have released something now.
>
>A quick check on ATI's site (www.atitech.com) shows that thay now have
>their own Linux drivers, at least. A lot of companies will do this - they
>won't give the needed details out, but will (after enough complaints come
>in) release one themselves. I haven't looked, but my bet is that its a
>binary-only release.

Apparently one of my old college chums has the primary relationship with
ATI for video drivers (GATOS). See 

http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia

-dsr-

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