ATI Radeon 9800SE AIW - poor quality of TV input.

Bogdan Diaconescu b_diaconescu at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 16 12:25:35 PDT 2006


Hi Alan, looking into log file I see that you are
using the pal-tuner option. Does it match your signal
type? You can change it in avview.

Regards,
Bogdan

--- Alan Knowles <alan at akbkhome.com> wrote:

> Bogdan Diaconescu wrote:
> 
> >Have you tried to tune the frequency from avview?
> >
> Yes, after hacking in fine tuned ranges into
> frequency.c 
> (http://www.akbkhome.com/tmp/frequencies.c.txt) - I
> also descovered the 
> option on the control panel on aview, unfortunatly,
> for the whole range 
> of frequencies that show some kind of picture, they
> all come up greyscale..
>  
> 
> > The
> >full x.org log would be interesting.
> >  
> >
> full log here, later part includes what is output
> when channels are 
> changed. http://www.akbkhome.com/tmp/Xorg.0.log
> (and xorg.conf for reference
> http://www.akbkhome.com/tmp/xorg.conf)
> 
> Regards
> Alan
> 
> >Bogdan
> >
> >--- Alan Knowles <alan at akbkhome.com> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I've got an ATI Radeon 9800SE AIW and am trying to
> >>get the TV-input
> >>working well (it currently can tune into some
> >>channels but only dull
> >>black and white).
> >>sceenshot: http://www.akbkhome.com/radeon_tv.jpg
> >>
> >>Just wondering if anyone can throw in some ideas.
> >>(is this a known
> >>problem, has a patch been applied already?)...
> etc.
> >>
> >>
> >>- Current status.
> >>Using debian's  xserver-xorg package
> 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6
> >>Using  6-4_xp-2k_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_31959.exe from
> ATI's
> >>web site, i copied
> >>./WDM_ALL/WDM_SP/XP/ativmc20.cod to
> >>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/multimedia/rt2_pmem.bin
> >>
> >>Xorg server is running at 24bit,
> >>
> >>I hacked a few channels into frequency.c
> >>
> >>// mods to km
> >>#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_ATI_RADEON_SE_AK    0x4148
> >>and the devices list.
> >>{PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATI,
> PCI_DEVICE_ID_ATI_RADEON_SE_AK,
> >>        PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0,
> >>HARDWARE_RADEON},
> >>
> >>
> >>Xorg appears to load it up all ok, without any
> >>warnings.
> >>--------------------------------------
> >>(II) Loading sub module "theatre200"
> >>(II) LoadModule: "theatre200"
> >>(II) Loading
>
>>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/multimedia/theatre200_drv.so
> >>(II) Module theatre200: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> >>       compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version =
> >>1.0.0
> >>       ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: Use default microcode
> >>path:
> >>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/multimedia/rt2_pmem.bin
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: Use default microcode
> >>type: BINARY
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: device_id: 4d4a
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: vendor_id: 1002
> >>
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: rev_id: 1f
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: num_seg: 4
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: dsp_init OK
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: dsp_download OK
> >>(II) RADEON(0): VIP_GPIO_CNTL: 200001
> >>(II) RADEON(0): VIP_GPIO_INOUT: a200000
> >>(II) RADEON(0): VIP_GPIO_CNTL: 200011
> >>(II) RADEON(0): VIP_GPIO_INOUT: a310010
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Rage Theatre setting standard
> 0x0000
> >>(II) RADEON(0):
> >>Microcode: Use microcode path:
> >>/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/multimedia/rt2_pmem.bin
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: Use microcode type:
> >>BINARY
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: device_id: 4d4a
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: vendor_id: 1002
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: rev_id: 1f
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: num_seg: 4
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: dsp_init OK
> >>(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: dsp_download OK
> >>(WW) RADEON(0): Option "HWCursor" is not used
> >>(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
> >>--snip--
> >>--------------------------------------
> >>
> >>
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