X.org/Gatos branch

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat,  5 Feb 2005 08:07:53 -0500, s_amping at ece.concordia.ca
<s_amping at ece.concordia.ca> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I read on the Gatos Project web site (http://gatos.sourceforge.net/) that "the
> driver development is in the process of moving to X.org CVS"
> 
> So there is now a branch in the X.org CVS?  I would like to know how I could use
> the gatos drivers with my ATI 8500 AIW DV card.  Are they yet working with X.org
> 6.8?  I'm using Fedora Core 3.


Vladimir merged the radeon gatos code into xorg cvs HEAD a while back.
 He also posted a patch for the r128 GATOS changes, although that
hasn't been merged yet (there's still a bug with using the engine
before it's initialized).  You'd need to check out and build xorg to
use it, or try the DRI nightly snapshots which include an updated DDX,
drm, and dri lib.
http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/
grab the r200 snapshots.

> 
> The reason I'm after the Gatos drivers is so that I can do some DV editing with
> Kino and even watch a little cable TV.

The fireware port on the radeon should be handled by a kernel iee1394
driver, the ohci one as I recall.  gatos will only enable the analog
video stuff.

> 
> It must've been alot of work to put together these drivers.  I hope that the
> project hasn't died and if it hasn't what's the state of the project?
> 
> I'm so determined I bought "Linux Kernel Development" by Robert Love and if I
> can I'll contribute somewhere down the line.

Sounds good!

Alex

> 
> Esteban
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