[mythtv] MythTV - DRI required?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 03:03:55PM -0800, Bruce Markey wrote:

> COFFMAN Steven wrote:
> >I had assumed that GATOS was only for All-In-Wonder cards. Is that not
> >correct? I have a Radeon 8500 128 for my video card, and a seperate ATI
> >TV Wonder card.
> 
> You need the "ati.2" X modules for the Xv support. The
> "drm_kernel" is not required (per mdz). "km" is only for
> All-In-Wonder and is only useful for one specific program.

Whether you need the ati.2 modules for Xv support depends on the version of
X that you are running, and the particular card and revision that you have.
Gatos generally gets support for new cards first, but this support (for Xv
and other standard features) is eventually folded into XFree86 proper.
In cases where updates to the DRM kernel modules are required in order to
support newer hardware, these are found in the gatos drm_kernel modules.

The multimedia aspects of the all-in-wonder cards (tuner, capture, etc.) are
supported only by gatos, using the "km" modules.

(for further discussion, please move this to the gatos list)

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 - mdz