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Skriven 2006-02-03 09:24:44 av Kenneth Parrish (8:8/2)
   Kommentar till text 5144 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38.9)
Ärende: Re: flashmem ide adapter ; Re: udev -NOT
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-=> In article 03 Feb 06  02:21:20, Maurice Kinal wrote to Kenneth Parrish <=-

 MK> Hey Kenneth!
sniffle:  a rare for-me cold  :^)
Today is Setsubun  (Japan, Change of Seasons Day)

[ mencoder | mplayer ]
 MK> It sure looks that way although I haven't used mplayer this way
 MK> before so it is all new to me.  Now that I've moved the tv card to
 MK> the new capacitor board and got it working (2.6.15.2) I'll have to
 MK> get mplayer working with the radeonfb which is also completely new
 MK> to me. dmesg says;

 MK> radeonfb: Found Intel x86 BIOS ROM Image
 MK> radeonfb: Retreived PLL infos from BIOS
phase-locked loops, check

 MK> radeonfb: Reference=27.00 MHz (RefDiv=60) Memory=150.00 Mhz,
 MK> System=150.00 MHz radeonfb: PLL min 12000 max 35000
 MK> radeonfb: Monitor 1 type CRT found
 MK> radeonfb: EDID probed
VESA Display Data Channel, Extended Display Identification Standard, check

 MK> radeonfb: Monitor 2 type no found
 MK> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64
 MK> radeonfb (0000:01:00.0): ATI Radeon QY

 MK> I am assuming the 'radeonfb: Monitor 2 type no found' means the
 MK> tv-out on that card.  Interesting.
hm.

 MK> lspci -v shows;

 MK> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY
 MK> [Radeon 7000/VE] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
 MK>         Subsystem: Unknown device 18d4:000f
 MK>         Flags: bus master, stepping, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32,
 MK> IRQ 10
 MK>         Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
 MK>         I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
 MK>         Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 MK>         Expansion ROM at e2000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 MK>         Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0
 MK>         Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

 MK> fbset;

 MK> mode "1280x1024-85"
 MK>     # D: 157.505 MHz, H: 91.149 kHz, V: 85.027 Hz
 MK>     geometry 1280 1024 1280 1024 8
 MK>     timings 6349 224 64 44 1 160 3
 MK>     hsync high
 MK>     vsync high
 MK>     rgba 8/0,8/0,8/0,0/0
 MK> endmode

 MK> I am guessing I can change the above and will try booting up to 24-bit
 MK> mode and see what mplayer can handle wrt display on the radeonfb.  The
 MK> console looks excellent.  :-)

From the debian ramification, for possible interest :)

*C. Bayle ········ ext · libgatos-dev ··············· The General ATI TV
and Overlay Software(GATOS): Dev Lib and Headers.
*C. Bayle ········ ext · libgatos0 ·················· The General ATI TV
and Overlay Software(GATOS): Runtime Libraries

and more from the linux dictionary..

  gatos
*     ATI All-in-Wonder TV capture software The General ATI TV and Overlay
     Software (GATOS) suite for capturing video. This package does not require
     kernel patches, and includes: * xatitv: GUI TV-in-a-window application
     GUI access to all GATOS functionality, save tv-out. * atitv: Simple
     text-mode program Basic functionality to record video and toggle tv-out.
     * atitoppm: * atitogif: * atitojpg: YUV conversion utilities * yuvsum:
     video field to frame converter Averages all images in gatos.yuv (must all
     be same size). * atisplit: YUV conversion to ucbmpeg This splits the
     output file for MPEG encoding. From Debian 3.0r0 APT [http://www.tldp.org
     /LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html] http://www.tldp.org/LDP/
     Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html

 KP> the 'HAL' system, instead of the sg-interface, may become more used,
 KP> i've read.  * HAL  - Hardware Abstraction Layer

 MK> The last I looked I had problems with that.  Perhaps smp?  Might
 MK> have a looksee on this one.
the lkml has a note, there is work on hal by a sun person. may be a good omen
for smp

[ mini-cdr in green with colur-coordinated case ]
 KP> ... readable yesterday, fwiw  :-)

 MK> I burned a few of those but haven't tried booting one on this new
 MK> guy yet.  One regular cd-r failed miserably but does work on a
 MK> dvd-rom.  Given that I put a fairly new cd-rom on the new guy and
 MK> it has problems with cd's burned from the dvd burner my guess that
 MK> it really sucks at compatibility is looking true.  If so then I
 MK> suppose it'll have to go.
maybe there's a compatibility mode that will be supported.

 MK> It won't surprise me any if I am right about this.
the new way has hidden good, maybe  (:

... one down, a billion to go

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