Ubuntu as a multimedia center

[Gábor Iglói]

> 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.

I know nVIDIA is better supported under Linux, but... I wonder if
anybody ever used an ATi's tvout under Linux...

> 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.

No, the issue is that the Audigy LS needs a different kernel module
than the Live 5.1 ( the ca_0106) which is a relatively new code and
half a year ago it didn't supported 5.1 mode. I wonder if anybody has
this card tested under Ubuntu Breezy (I would do the test by myself
just now but this is my collegue's card). I'm asking you so when I
will actually set up the card on Breezy I will have some clues if it
worths trying to make it sound in 5.1. I knew about the alsamixer
trick - I just wonder if it will be that easy or will I need a custom
asound.rc file for that.