Radeon Tv-in with 6.8.2

[Alex Deucher]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:52:49 +0100, fcomi at tiscali.it <fcomi at tiscali.it> wrote:
> I succesfully used tv-in with 6.8.1 (or older) in the past using gatos or
> the dri snapshots.
> 
> I have a radeon 8500 VIVO.
> Now I just reinstalled my slack 10.1 with x.org 6.8.2.

6.8.2 doesn't have the gatos code.  you need xorg cvs HEAD.

> Launching glxgears I see that 3d acceleration is working.
> I downloaded avview (I tryed both 0.80.6 and CVS), it compiles fine, but
> when I run it says that it is my first installation and asks to reconfigure,
> I click ok then it closes. in the console I see this:
> 
> $ start_avview
> libzvbi available export modules:
>         HTML:keyword "html" mimetype "text/html" extension "html,htm"
>         PNG:keyword "png" mimetype "image/png" extension "png"
>         PPM:keyword "ppm" mimetype "image/x-portable-pixmap" extension "ppm"
>         Text:keyword "text" mimetype "text/plain" extension "txt"
>         VTX:keyword "vtx" mimetype "application/videotext" extension "vtx"
> NUM_ADAPTORS=1
> Adaptor 0: ATI Radeon Video Overlay
>                 type input image
>                 ports 61
> 61 ATI Radeon Video Overlay
> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  140 (XVideo)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  14 ()
>   Serial number of failed request:  1314
>   Current serial number in output stream:  1314
> 
> If instead I try to install this: radeon-20050313-linux.i386.tar.bz2
> avview does no more close but show nothing and 3d acceleration stop working,
> I get:
> 
> $ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
> name of display: :0.0
> libGL error: XF86DRIQueryDirectRenderingCapable returned false
> display: :0  screen: 0
> direct rendering: No
> ...[cut]...
> 
> I have searched around in internet, but found nothig.
> Someone can please help me to solve this?

can you post your xorg log?

Alex