From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 23 12: 4:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A8637B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:04:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from CRWdog.demon.co.uk (adsl-66-123-232-98.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.123.232.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EABB43F13 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:04:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spadger@best.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by CRWdog.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CD2596; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:04:37 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Sam Drinkard Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video / TV In-Reply-To: Message from Sam Drinkard of "Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:21:13 EST." <3E2F1959.4030006@vortex.wa4phy.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1837382495P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:04:37 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow Message-Id: <20030123200437.7CD2596@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_1837382495P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Since nothing really answered my question(s) via the search engine, I > hate to bother anybody here, but........ > > I see nothing in the 4.X branch that supports the ATI all-in-wonder > cards. Will / is there support for that piece of hardware in the 5.0 > branch? Any pointers or redirects to some reading? Take a look at the GATOS project drivers for the ATI cards. It's a separate branch from the XFree86 tree, but will get rolled back in sometime. You can, in case you're wondering, install the Linux binary drivers (on the web site) and load them straight over the standard modules that come with your XFree server, and this doesn't need Linux emulation on your machine (because the XFree server has it's own, platform independant mechanism for loadable modules). Someone else mentioned that they compile just fine on FreeBSD too, if you don't like using binaries... I've been using these drivers for nearly a year to provide XV (hardware color transforms and scaling) support for an ATI Rage128 Mobility in my laptop, and they work great for me. From http://gatos.sourceforge.net: GATOS project provides enhanced drivers for many videocards made by ATI (in particular All-in-Wonder series) and a TV player/recorder application AVview. While ultimately we would like AVview to be compatible with all video capture hardware supported by Linux at the moment it supports GATOS drivers far better than anything else. I don't know about the video support specifically, you'd probably need some kind of support for the Video4linux API. There was some talk about that a while ago on -multimedia, searching that might turn up something more. HTH. Regards, AS --==_Exmh_1837382495P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+MErVPHh895bDXeQRAn2cAJ9se+MDkJ1gBJAMRz27rqvQ4rfeJwCgz2ye aUu8HKmczUrorwMwcmXkuK4= =ErDR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1837382495P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message