X.org/Gatos branch

[s_amping at ece.concordia.ca]

Quoting Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>:

> On Sat,  5 Feb 2005 08:07:53 -0500, s_amping at ece.concordia.ca
> <s_amping at ece.concordia.ca> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I read on the Gatos Project web site (http://gatos.sourceforge.net/) that
> "the
> > driver development is in the process of moving to X.org CVS"
> >
> > So there is now a branch in the X.org CVS?  I would like to know how I
> could use
> > the gatos drivers with my ATI 8500 AIW DV card.  Are they yet working with
> X.org
> > 6.8?  I'm using Fedora Core 3.
>
>
> Vladimir merged the radeon gatos code into xorg cvs HEAD a while back.
>  He also posted a patch for the r128 GATOS changes, although that
> hasn't been merged yet (there's still a bug with using the engine
> before it's initialized).  You'd need to check out and build xorg to
> use it, or try the DRI nightly snapshots which include an updated DDX,
> drm, and dri lib.
> http://dri.freedesktop.org/snapshots/
> grab the r200 snapshots.

Ok.  Thanks.

> >
> > The reason I'm after the Gatos drivers is so that I can do some DV editing
> with
> > Kino and even watch a little cable TV.
>
> The fireware port on the radeon should be handled by a kernel iee1394
> driver, the ohci one as I recall.  gatos will only enable the analog
> video stuff.

On the Gatos project web site it says for "All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV
(Radeon200)" in the Supported cards section that "Firewire port (at least the
one on the card itself) has been observed to work in Linux."

So this isn't a part of the Gatos project but the work was done by someone else
and put into the linux kernel?  I have gotten firewire to work in Linux before
using a USB/firewire card but I thought that the firewire port on the ATI AIW
card was not supported.  I will try again and see what I can get it to do.  Do
you know of anyone with experience getting this firewire port to work?

Esteban