On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Robert Braddock <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Radeon 8500 video card which I use under linux (debian testing) > as video-in for my computer to act as my tv monitor. Sometime since the > Summer, this has stopped working and I am having no luck finding any > helpful information by searching. Most searches just refer to the old > GATOS project, which hasn't done anything for years, but supposedly has > been rolled into xorg's drivers, so shouldn't matter. > > Now, I know my card uses a "video overlay" which most tv-type programs > don't seem to care about. I used to use GATOS's avview to open the > AV-in window, but that stopped working with X a year or so ago, at which > point I went to the less reliable but functional xawtv. That worked for > a while by itself, but then I needed to run kdetv first, and then xawtv > (and then kdetv again to shut off the audio). This was especially odd > because kdetv didn't actually ever get the actual video, but it would > reliably get things setup so xawtv could work. Xawtv still had > problems, though: it would just go blank if you resized it or made it > full screen. The video would come back if you brought up xawtv's menu, > so the process became: start kdetv, quit it, start xawtv, make it > fullscreen, right click twice to get the menu and get rid of it again, > use the video, quit xawtv, start kdetv, and finally quit it. What a > mess! At least it worked, though. > > Now, it seems as though my overlay device just isn't there. Kdetv says > there's no video device at all and xawtv reports "no usable video port > found". Since kdetv and xawtv are unrelated programs, I'm guessing X is > the one doing something different. > > I've looked through the xorg log, and there doesn't seem to be any kind > of errors to follow up on. I haven't made any config changes since back > when it was working. All that's changed is there have been updates > installed, but I didn't use the video-in for some months, so I have no > idea what batch of updates broke things, or why. > > This is a current debian testing, kernel 2.6.32-5-686, X.org X Server > 1.7.7, xawtv 3.95.dfsg.1 > > Any help tracking down and fixing the problem would be great... Are > there any other programs that will connect with the video-in overlay for > a Radeon 8500? If this was intentional, are there any recommended > alternatives (other than new hardware, which isn't an option)? >
The radeon video input features are not supported with KMS. If you want to use them, you will need to disable KMS. Boot with radeon.modeset=0 on your kernel command line in grub. I don't know of anyone actively working on porting the old video input code to KMS. Alex > References: > - Xorg log > http://concordantthought.com/personal/robert/relay/Xorg.0.20110101.log > - results of "xawtv -v -2" > http://concordantthought.com/personal/robert/relay/xawtv-v-2.20110101.log > > Thanks for anything, > Robert > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
