Video In with a radeon 9800

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Sun Mar 8 18:50:24 PDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:01 PM, brent <runner at pinetreeline.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to get my video in working on my ATI Radeon 9800 and
> have not had any luck. I have loaded the theatre driver. I guess the
> first question is, is there anything else I need to do to get this to
> work ? Below is a section of my log file. Using the application TvTime I
> have tried accessing the /dev/.static/dev/video devices with no luck. I
> assume I am missing something simple. Any help would be appreciated.

The gatos video-in code in the radeon driver does not provide a v4l
compatible interface.  it's a special collection of Xv attributes.
You'll have to use a gatos specific app like aaview to use the video
in.  See http://gatos.sf.net for more info.

Alex



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