On February 7, 2003 11:09 pm, Jonathan Morton wrote: > That works for older ATI and Hauppauge cards that have an 848 or 878 > chip. Newer cards have something completely different that needs to > be driven by the GPU itself, hence the GATOS project.
as per jonathan's advice, i went ahead and tried an install of the ati-gatos ebuild. but before i did anything, i backed up /usr/X11R6/ just to be sure. the ebuild went fine and the drivers were installed, but then i had to edit XF86Config acording to the message that appeared at the end of the emerge. this didn't work. the installed drivers are installed as "gatos-<drivername>_drv.o" but if you edit your config file to use these files, X won't start. instead you have to rename your <drivername>_drv.o file to something else and rename the gatos- file to the old driver name. X will start then and poof! i have tv running on my screen via xawtv. ...dri is gone though: -- (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIScreenInit failed because of a version mismatch. [dri] radeon.o kernel module version is 1.1.1 but version 1.2.x is needed. [dri] see http://gatos.sf.net/ for an updated module [dri] Disabling DRI. (EE) RADEON(0): [drm] failed to remove DRM signal handler (II) RADEON(0): [drm] removed 1 reserved context for kernel and i still don't have /dev/v4l and i don't know where to start to record video. thanks for the continued help :-) -- don't go around saying the world owes you a living. the world owes you nothing. it was here first. - mark twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
