From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 12:46:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 701BA16A505 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:46:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from parse.com (ottawa-hs-206-191-28-202.s-ip.magma.ca [206.191.28.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E325443D68 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:46:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@parse.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by parse.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00371 for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:46:03 -0500 Message-Id: <200412101246.HAA00371@parse.com> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:46:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert Krten" In-Reply-To: <200412101053.00778.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> from "Michael Nottebrock" at Dec 10, 2004 10:52:56 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Recommendation for FreeBSD 5.3 TV-Out capable card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:46:04 -0000 Michael Nottebrock sez... > > On Friday, 10. December 2004 05:04, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > > > I have an old ATI Rage II card with TV-out, but the drivers don't > > > handle the TV-out aspect correctly either. > > TV Output with open source drivers is generally a pain. Most manufacturers= > =20 > have submitted to the evil empire that is Macrovision and won't give out=20 > specifications to anybody, and US-based developers are usually scared enoug= > h=20 > to not reverse-engineer things either. TV-Output support for _some_ Radeons= > =20 > apparrently is in the GATOS ati.2 driver (http://gatos.sourceforge.net). Aha! Well, that certainly explains the (otherwise) complete lack of response. The amusing thing is, I've been using QNX 4 and it supports the TV-Out of the old RAGE II just fine. QNX has, therefore, found its way into settop box configurations, and other TV-output applications that have nothing to do with Macrovision :-) In any event, thanks much for the info and pointers; appreciate it! Cheers, -RK -- Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316. Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting, Books and Training at www.parse.com Looking for Digital Equipment Corp. PDP-1 through PDP-15 minicomputers!