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+It's easy when you have the right hardware.  I struggled more than I
+want to admit without any real success to make my ATI Radeon 7500 All-in-Wonder
+card do NTSC video out from 
+<a href="http://www.mythtv.org">MythTV</a>.  
+I was frustrated enough that I was pricing
+nVidia cards on the web, knowing that their driver would "just work" despite
+being hideously non-free.  To the rescue came a co-worker, who pointed me to 
+Thomas Winischhofer's 
+<a href="http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml">Linux and SiS</a>
+site, which suggested that I could have a fully open source solution for NTSC
+video output for cheap.
+
+And it works!
+
+I bought an ECS
+<a href="http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?DEPA=1&submit=Go&description=ag315p">AG315P/TV</a> card from
+<a href="http://www.newegg.com">newegg.com</a>,
+which is fast becoming my favorite place to buy stuff like this.  For the
+princely sum of $29, I got an AGP video card using the SiS 315 controller and
+an SiS 301 video bridge... that auto-detects the presence
+of a load on the RCA composite output at boot time, and gives me full BIOS
+video support on the TV output!  
+
+I didn't even need to load up Thomas' drivers
+for X, the stock Debian 4.3.0-0pre1v1 from experimental "just worked" with
+the following device selection.  The option tells the card to assign the one
+available set of overlay support registers (which MythTV needs for video
+playback) to the TV output instead of the default VGA output.  That's it!
+
+<pre>
+Section "Device"
+        Identifier      "SiS315PRO"
+        Driver          "sis"
+
+        Option          "XvOnCRT2"              "true"
+EndSection
+</pre>
+
+Wish I'd known about this before I went do the ATI path... and by the way, I
+decided I really don't like the feel of the ATI UHF remote control, so I bought
+some IR modules from Radio Shack and am building up lirc receivers... but more
+about that another day...
+
+[[!tag tags/pvr]]