Re: ati all-in-wonder tv support

From: Jason (------_at_fake.org)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 19:08:37 GMT

In response to the two. I have an ATI AIW r128 video card. As far as I
know the GATOS project does work with FreeBSD, I had it working sometime
ago with freebsd 4.7 and xf86 4.1 or 4.2. So don't give up hope. I don't
use the TV tuner anymore b/c I don't watch TV anymore. But if you must,
then d/l the xf86 gatos drivers for XF86. They should work in FreeBSD b/c
it's XF86 gatos deals with, and not specifically anything with BSD
architecture. You'll see some "extra" information in /var/logs/XF86.0.log
if you've installed the gatos drivers correctly. Something about tv tuner
detected and whatnot.

Mind the obscurities and the lack of specifics.
Hope this works out.

Jason.

> Mike Scott wrote:
>> [quoted text muted]
> Mike,
> Sad to say but currently though you can use the ati card for XFree86.
> The tuner and such will not work at this time with Freebsd. The way ati
> works their tuner card and all is much different from most of the others.
> (Don't shoot me folks unless you know of a better answer. :) ) Linux
> would be your better bet if you want to make full use of your ATI AIW.
> They have Gato and the V4L2 (video for Linux) media subsystem that can let
> you make use of the card.
> http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/
> Would be one of the first places I'd look. I wish you the best of luck
> with your project. Working with video on
> Unix is very exciting. But it's also very challenging. Be sure to look at
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ mplayer rocks when it comes to tinkering with
> video and playing movies and various video formats. It also is the most
> versatile video encoder I've ever seen.
> Happy new year.
>
> Davon

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