Ubuntu as a multimedia center

[matt nicholson]

On Nov 2, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Gábor Iglói wrote:

> Hello!
>
> In the weekend I will help one of my collegues setting up Breezy. He
> is a Linux user for about 1.5 years now but with his previous Linux
> distro there was some hardware support problems.
>
> 1. his ATi Radeon 9200 SE card couldn't put its picture on a TV
> through the tv-out - is there somebody who has successfully used ATi
> tv-out under Linux? If so how it can be done, will we need the fglrx
> driver too?

i don't know much about ATI cards, but, with nvidia cards, you 
generally have to eitehr use their "twinview" X options to, one "one X 
screen" has 2 displays, that the X server never really knows about, so 
you can have 3d/opengl/etc on both screen with no performance drops. 
that, or you configure dual head a la 2 screens and 2 displays in your 
xorg.conf i have never done it but i have seen it done and i'm sure 
someone on the list  has done it.

> 2. his cheap SB Audigy LS card refused to operate in 5.1 mode - it
> sounded only in stereo. I think this card is more supported with the
> new alsa in Breezy, but how can I get 5.1 sounds? Do I need to tweak
> mplayer, xmms etc or will alsamixer control the 3 channel? If somebody
> has a similar card and managed to enjoy the 5.1 please write to the
> list.
>
my sound blaster live 5.1 card works fine under breezy. i do have to, 
however, open the sound mixer and enable/turn up the center/rear 
channels. they are off by default and this could be your issue.


> Thanks
> Gábor
>
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