X.org/Gatos branch

[Alex Deucher]

On Sat,  5 Feb 2005 11:16:01 -0500, s_amping at ece.concordia.ca
<s_amping at ece.concordia.ca> wrote:
> Quoting Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ok.  Thanks.
> 
> > >
> > > 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.
> 
> On the Gatos project web site it says for "All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV
> (Radeon200)" in the Supported cards section that "Firewire port (at least the
> one on the card itself) has been observed to work in Linux."
> 
> So this isn't a part of the Gatos project but the work was done by someone else
> and put into the linux kernel?  I have gotten firewire to work in Linux before
> using a USB/firewire card but I thought that the firewire port on the ATI AIW
> card was not supported.  I will try again and see what I can get it to do.  Do
> you know of anyone with experience getting this firewire port to work?
> 

the gatos project just handled the analog input (tuner, video/audio
decoder, etc.)  AFAIK, the DV port on the 8500DV is just an ohci
firewire chip on a pci bridge.  take a look at the linux ieee1394
project.

Alex

> Esteban
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