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How to get xorg 7.0

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I'm trying to get the gatos drivers working for my TV tuner. The gatos webpage says that the drivers have be intergrated in Xorg 7.0. Is there any distrobution out there with xorg 7.0 I can just download and install. If there is what else would I have to do get the tuner to work.

gatos web page: http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ati.2.php
 
Isn't 6.9 the same as 7.0, but without the more modular build system? According to the release notes it has the gatos stuff in it (or at least some updates to it...). Any recent release should have at least 6.9.
 
Ya. 6.9 is the same as 7.0 except for how it's built. 6.9 uses a older method of software building that does it all in one great big hunk. With 7 you can pick and choose what parts you want to compile. The reason they went with the dual release is to make it easier on OS makers to do the transition.

Distros running 6.9 right now are going to be mostly very new. Dapper, which is currently in development, will use 7.0. Debian Sid will use 6.9, but work is being done to migrate to the modular branch. Suse 10 may use it, but I don't know. You'll just have to check. In the next couple months all the new bunch of Linux distros versions will be out. (Fedora Core 5 for instance) all of these will be using the 6.9/7.0 branch for sure.

The thing about that Gatos project is that it's only going to support very old ATI "All in Wonder" tuner cards. Make sure your card is even supported before trying it out, most cards are not supported.
 
Originally posted by: drag
Ya. 6.9 is the same as 7.0 except for how it's built. 6.9 uses a older method of software building that does it all in one great big hunk. With 7 you can pick and choose what parts you want to compile. The reason they went with the dual release is to make it easier on OS makers to do the transition.

Distros running 6.9 right now are going to be mostly very new. Dapper, which is currently in development, will use 7.0. Debian Sid will use 6.9, but work is being done to migrate to the modular branch. Suse 10 may use it, but I don't know. You'll just have to check. In the next couple months all the new bunch of Linux distros versions will be out. (Fedora Core 5 for instance) all of these will be using the 6.9/7.0 branch for sure.

The thing about that Gatos project is that it's only going to support very old ATI "All in Wonder" tuner cards. Make sure your card is even supported before trying it out, most cards are not supported.
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And I have a very old ATI All in wonder card. I used the gatos drivers a few years ago and they worked but that was in a distro with out KDE 3.
 
Wow got the tuner working using Kubuntu Flight 4 release. Only had a the minor problem that the first time I installed the software my hard drive died.
 
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