gatos & xorg

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 03 January 2005 17:58, Alex Deucher wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:54:04 -0500, Gene Heskett
>
><gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Monday 03 January 2005 17:14, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> >On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:08:49 -0500, Gene Heskett
>> >
>> ><gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> >> On Monday 03 January 2005 13:40, Mikael Eriksson wrote:
>> >> >Jeremy Wilkins wrote:
>> >> >> Hi,
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Has any of the work from the gatos project been synced with
>> >> >> the xorg cvs/releases?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I'm trying to get the tvout going on a radeon 9200se, and
>> >> >> the 4.3.0 gatos drivers don't recognise my card. Presumably
>> >> >> if the gatos functionality has made it into xorg then that
>> >> >> should support a 9200se.
>> >> >
>> >> >Have you tried atitvout?
>> >> >http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/atitvout
>> >> >/
>> >>
>> >> And now I'm confused.  The pages referred to above all quote
>> >> that its for the r-128 chipset, but my 9200SE signs on as an
>> >> rv-280 chipset.
>> >>
>> >> Is there someplace a dummy can actully look up the differences?
>> >
>> >atitvout just uses bios calls to enable outputs.  I think the vbe
>> >calls for most ati chips haven't really changed much so it works
>> > on almost all ati chips.  proper tv-out support would require
>> > programming the various tv-regs directly.
>> >
>> >Alex
>>
>> In other words, I shouldn't hold my breath. The current 6.8.1
>> apparently takes a look for a 2nd screen, but doesn't find an
>> attached monitor so it politely goes away during the startx.
>
>well there's tv-out code available, someone just needs to port it to
>xorg cvs. it shouldn't be too hard.  It might be a nice starter
>project for someone looking to hack on xorg.
>
>Alex

Well, if there was a choice to be made, between making drm/dri work on 
an rv280 chipset, and making the tv out work, you just have to know 
which my wish gets hung on, the drm/dri stuff,  glxgears run about 
200 frames here, and tuxracer brings an XP2800 athlon to its knees 
gasping for air and begging for mercy.  About 1/2 frame per second 
and so laggy the reset button is the only really workable way out of 
it.

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