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Re: [livid-ati] AIW Radeon 32mb TV-out, accel





On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Matthew Reppert wrote:

> Hi, I managed to get the gatos drivers working well enough to let me
> watch Trigun VHS tapes on my computer now, my next test will be hooking
> up my PSX when I can get to it :)
> 
> Two quick questions. First, now that I have TV-in working, do I have to
> do anything "special" to get TV-out? I have the video-out cable hooked

Yes, try devel branch of ati_xv module.

> into my gfx card and TV when I start X, and I've verified multiple times
> that yes, it's all hooked into the correct ports. However, I still only
> get a black screen on the TV's video-in.
> 
> Second, my accelerated performance sucks ^_^; glxgears zips right along
> at about 163fps. This a DRI issue of some sort? Does kernel DRI suck for
> this driver, and should I be using something else? If so, what? Any help
> would be appreciated.
> 
> I'm running kernel 2.4.12 with XFree 4.1.0 (of course) and a CVS grab of

This should work. Be sure to enable agpgart and compiler the right drm
module.

                         Vladimir Dergachev

> the gatos drivers from www.au.linuxvideo.org. I honestly don't remember
> exactly where on-site I got them from, but I haven't been able to log
> into CVS anonymously for about a month. In fact, I have, I haven't been
> able to reach www.linuxvideo.org at all in that time. Is there an
> alternate CVS repository I could use? I tried following the CVS login
> instructions, substituting au.linuxvideo.org for cvs.linuxvideo.org,
> but that didn't work, it said that the /cvs/livid repository was
> nonexistant. I suspect now that I may be using drivers that aren't
> sufficiently recent, can anyone help me out in this area?
> 
> Thanks inadvance,
> Matt
>