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On 17 Jul 2005 03:22:17 -0700, "pjayant" <pjayant@sancharnet.in>
wrote:
>I have to raise new queries only because I do not get the answer to the
>question which was once available on the ATI Driver download site.
>Which Catalyst set goes with which version of MMC? For example, with
>your sermon on the etiquettes of Internet, you have still not told me
>which range of Catalyst drivers works for MMC 7.7.0.1. Until the time I
>find it out, I have to tenaciously live with the insults I receive in
>my search.
>
And that was answered both by myself and someone else after your first
(IIRC) post - you should be able to use most of the Catalyst drivers
up to 4.12 with MMC 7.7.0.1. Certainly any up to 3.10 - I'm running
Catalyst 3.8 with MMC 7.7.0.1 on my other PC right now - and watching
TV with it, on an older card than yours, a Radeon 7200.
The' insults' were an attempt to get you to respond - and you finally
have. Unfortunately, there is a marked lack of psychics in these
groups, so you have to respond to our posts to help us to help you.
For instance, you've mentioned a couple of times that your TV device
shows up as not working in Device Manager, or so I would understand it
from your previous posts. This is nothing to do with MMC; nor is it
to do with which Catalyst driver you have installed - it's to do with
which components you have installed of that driver, and/or a possible
physical problem with your tuner.
Until that's fixed, _no_ TV app of any version of MMC will work, so
there's not much point in my repeating advice on that until it _is_
sorted. That's why I was trying to get you to respond about your
DirectX version, because DX 9.0b is now well known to 'break' tuners,
and until that was sorted out we wouldn't be able to get past that
point.
>The other reason is that with limited messages shown in the O.E.6 my
>previous message and its responses are lost when I open the next time.
>I then have to go either via the Google Groups route to search my
>earlier
>message and the responses or start a new thread.
See R. C. White's response to your post in this thread, although a
better idea might be to use a dedicated newsreader like Free Agent,
from http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php. There again, if you
had responded that you were having trouble with reading posts, we
could have helped; if you don't respond, we can't.
It's also possible that your news provider has very poor retention
(i.e. doesn't keep messages on the server very long - most providers
will keep messages from, say, this group for a few months, at least)
or doesn't get them all. If either of those is true, it would be well
worth your while looking for a better provider, particularly if you
want to use newsgroups much for help.
>
>So my apologies to veteran experts like you. Only those who have to
>live
>with slow dial-up links would know what a job it is to search old
>articles
>or drivers on the Internet.
I've only had broadband for about 2 or 3 years now; until it became
available, I was stuck on dial-up, too. I can tell you that getting a
good modem makes a considerable difference on dial-up, particularly
with a lower end machine. This is because most of the modems you get
are 'software' ones - that is, they rely on your processor to run them
- rather than 'hardware' ones which do their own processing. On the
one hand, they don't slow your system down, and on the other, they
don't get slowed down themselves when your system's busy. There are a
couple of good dial-up modem newsgroups where you can get a lot of
good advice on optimising your dial-up connection; unfortunately, I
can't remember which ones offhand.
> May be, in your thinking, those with
>limited
>resources should forget all video capture and TV tuning and all such
>high
>faluting things and just do word processing and spreadsheets. I did not
>want to narrate to correspondents of this NewsGroup about the travails
>of those with limited internet resources but you have made me do that.
>
As I've said, I'm running MMC 7.7.0.1 on one of my machines; and it's
not a terrifically high end one, although I would have to admit that
it's on a broadband connection. The videocard it has, for instance,
is older than yours.
>Thanks for your sermon, anyway.
What sermon? I'm trying to _help_ you. If you don't respond to our
attempts to help, there's not much we can do - and if you have
problems reading posts, _we don't know until you tell us_.
>
>P. Jayant
<patrickp@5acoustibop.co.uk> - take five to email me...
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