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

[Alan Knowles]

Bogdan Diaconescu wrote:

>Have you tried to tune the frequency from avview?
>
Yes, after hacking in fine tuned ranges into frequency.c 
(http://www.akbkhome.com/tmp/frequencies.c.txt) - I also descovered the 
option on the control panel on aview, unfortunatly, for the whole range 
of frequencies that show some kind of picture, they all come up greyscale..
 

> The
>full x.org log would be interesting.
>  
>
full log here, later part includes what is output when channels are 
changed. http://www.akbkhome.com/tmp/Xorg.0.log
(and xorg.conf for reference http://www.akbkhome.com/tmp/xorg.conf)

Regards
Alan

>Bogdan
>
>--- Alan Knowles <alan at akbkhome.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>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.
>>--------------------------------------
>>(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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