ATI Radeon 9800SE AIW - poor quality of TV input.

Alan Knowles alan at akbkhome.com
Fri Apr 14 09:10:31 PDT 2006


I've got an ATI Radeon 9800SE AIW and am trying to get the TV-input
working well (it currently can tune into some channels but only dull
black and white).
sceenshot: http://www.akbkhome.com/radeon_tv.jpg

Just wondering if anyone can throw in some ideas. (is this a known
problem, has a patch been applied already?)... etc.


- Current status.
Using debian's  xserver-xorg package 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6
Using  6-4_xp-2k_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_31959.exe from ATI's web site, i copied
./WDM_ALL/WDM_SP/XP/ativmc20.cod to
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/multimedia/rt2_pmem.bin

Xorg server is running at 24bit,

I hacked a few channels into frequency.c

// mods to km
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_ATI_RADEON_SE_AK    0x4148
and the devices list.
{PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATI, PCI_DEVICE_ID_ATI_RADEON_SE_AK,
        PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID, 0, 0, HARDWARE_RADEON},


Xorg appears to load it up all ok, without any warnings.
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(II) Loading sub module "theatre200"
(II) LoadModule: "theatre200"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/multimedia/theatre200_drv.so
(II) Module theatre200: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
       compiled for 4.3.99.902, module version = 1.0.0
       ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: Use default microcode path:
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/multimedia/rt2_pmem.bin
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: Use default microcode type: BINARY
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: device_id: 4d4a
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: vendor_id: 1002

(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: rev_id: 1f
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: num_seg: 4
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: dsp_init OK
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: dsp_download OK
(II) RADEON(0): VIP_GPIO_CNTL: 200001
(II) RADEON(0): VIP_GPIO_INOUT: a200000
(II) RADEON(0): VIP_GPIO_CNTL: 200011
(II) RADEON(0): VIP_GPIO_INOUT: a310010
(II) RADEON(0): Rage Theatre setting standard 0x0000 (II) RADEON(0):
Microcode: Use microcode path:
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/multimedia/rt2_pmem.bin
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: Use microcode type: BINARY
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: device_id: 4d4a
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: vendor_id: 1002
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: rev_id: 1f
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: num_seg: 4
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: dsp_init OK
(II) RADEON(0): Microcode: dsp_download OK
(WW) RADEON(0): Option "HWCursor" is not used
(WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
--snip--
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