[mythtv] Re: ATI AIW support

Isaac Richards mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Tue, 10 Sep 2002 22:24:51 -0400


On Tuesday 10 September 2002 08:14 pm, Paul Jara wrote:
> Thanks; the advice about /etc/ld.so.conf and ldconfig did the trick.
> However, I can confirm the findings of Brad Davis that MythTV does not
> work yet on the ATI All in Wonder series.
>
> I am using an ATI All in Wonder Radeon AGP, and get virtually the same
> messages in my /var/log/messages as he does.  A bit of Google research
> suggests that the GATOS V4L drivers still have a ways to go in order to
> implement the full specification.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing whether it seems possible that in future
> releases MythTV will be able to support the ATI AIW series given the
> current state of their drivers continues as-is.

I'm not going to go out of my way to support hardware I don't have.  I will, 
of course, accept a patch if someone wants to make the changes necessary to 
support it, though, and doesn't break other things in the process.  I 
wouldn't think it'd be all that difficult to do.

Isaac