Radeon AIW 9700 functionality

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Scott West wrote:

> Thanks bogdan!
> I pulled xorg from cvs last night and gave it a whirl, adding your
> patches  and new files to the ebuild. Everything went super (after I
> corrected some of my silly errors :)), as far as the installation,
> xorg pops up quite happily now. However, at first the tuner wouldn't
> work at all (couldn't select pal/ntsc), then I searched around and
> added the microcode from my windows drivers and added the appropriate
> options to xorg.conf. Okay, so now avview opens and allows me to
> select pal/ntsc tuner/composite, etc. The only problem is that the
> signal appears very very weak. As in, most channels are noise, but on
> a few i can make out figures (garbled people, garbled words, etc). Any
> clue as to why that would be?

You might have a wrong channel table. Try changing the channel frequency a 
little bit.

                     best

                        Vladimir Dergachev

>
> Thanks again,
> Scott
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:05:17 -0800 (PST), Bogdan Diaconescu
> <b_diaconescu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi Scott, last week I've added a bug in bugzilla: 2778
>> containing the patch for RageTheatre200 and I'm trying
>> to get cvs access to add it to cvs head.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bogdan
>>
>> --- Scott West <saynte at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if this is the correct place to post,
>>> but I'll give it a
>>> shot :). I have a Radeon AIW 9700 Pro in my desktop
>>> machine, and I was
>>> wondering if there is currently support for the
>>> tv-tuner functionality
>>> of the card. I know of the GATOS project (and posted
>>> a similiar
>>> message to their list a few weeks ago with no reply)
>>> and had heard
>>> that they had merged their code into the current CVS
>>> of Xorg. I
>>> searched along the GATOS mailing archives and that
>>> gave me some hope
>>> of support, but currently trying to use the r200
>>> stuff from GATOS CVS
>>> doesn't do the job for me... Does anyone know if the
>>> tv-tuner goodness
>>> is possible at this point in time? Any light someone
>>> can shed on this
>>> would be great!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Scott
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