ATI 9000 pro tv-in and tv-out

fledermaus · 11-07-2004, 11:12 AM

hi there,

I installed my ati radeon pro 9000 tv/videocard into my red hat linux 9. The whole idea was watching television on my server (it is only a testwebserver).

So, installing the card went smoothly and in xwindow it is all working fine. Except...

It seems like linux doesn't recognize this ati card as a tv-tuner card. I installed xawtv but I cant start it. I dont get any error what so ever.

Can someone explain to me how I install this card correctly, including the tvtime or xawtv software?

thanks for your time,

fledermaus

fledermaus · 11-07-2004, 11:13 AM

oh please explain it for a noob: I have little experience with tvcards and linux. Tnx!!

slackMeUp · 11-07-2004, 01:52 PM

google is your friend... please do a bit of background checking first.

On that note... look what a quick google turned up:
http://gatos.sourceforge.net/

Noob or not, google should be your first stop... second, the search button, third a call for help.

fledermaus · 11-07-2004, 03:29 PM

hey, yes of course I first look for it myself, that's not the problem. But when I follow the steps some of those pages provide me, they are not working.

fledermaus · 11-13-2004, 08:00 AM

After doing all the steps in the readme's I found, the following problem persists:

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[root@fledermaus fledermaus]# rpm -Uh --force fglrx-4.3.0-3.14.1.i386.rpm
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*** Trying to install a precompiled kernel module.
*** WARNING ***
Tailored kernel module for fglrx not present in your system.
You must go to /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod subdir
and execute './make.sh' to build a fully customed kernel module.
Afterwards go to /lib/modules/fglrx and run './make_install.sh'
in order to install the module into your kernel's module repository.
(see readme.txt for more details.)

As of now you can still run your XServer in 2D, but hardware acclerated
OpenGL will not work and 2D graphics will lack performance.

failed.
*** Error: no kernel module build environment - please consult readme.
*** Warning ***
The QT based control panel application did not load in any version.
===
ATI display drivers successfully installed
please run 'fglrxconfig' now

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So as you can see, he says he "cant compile something". So, that's it for me, I dont know what to do about that... Is this the end of the story?

Hope not...

slackuser · 11-13-2004, 09:59 AM

Have you tried to go in console

->cd /lib/modules/fglrx/build_mod
->chmod * 755
->./make.sh
->cd ..
->./make_install.sh

that should install the driver. Then give command fglrxconfig in console to set up. But that driver only gives you 2d/3d accelerated functions, not tv-out functions (until ATI decides to support it, may be some licensing issue) .

slackuser · 11-13-2004, 10:24 AM

chmod * 755
should be
chmod 755 *

fledermaus · 05-03-2006, 04:26 AM

I will try that (again) right away. Last time I did that, I had no screen anymore ;-) but I might done something wrong so I'll give it another go.

What I find weird is that appearantly I'm the only user of SUSE 10 with a ATI AIW 9000 pro video card?! At least, it feels that way :-(

fledermaus · 05-03-2006, 04:40 AM

BTW slackuser, dont you think this means that TV is also supported or didn't I get that right:

GATOS project provides enhanced drivers for many videocards made by ATI (in particular All-in-Wonder series) and a TV player/recorder application AVview. While ultimately we would like AVview to be compatible with all video capture hardware supported by Linux at the moment it supports GATOS drivers far better than anything else.

slackuser · 05-06-2006, 04:47 PM

Latest Ati propietary display driver should support tv out, next text is from ati web site:
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ATI Proprietary Linux Driver Features

The ATI Proprietary Linux driver provides TV Output support for ATI graphics cards that support TV out. The ATI Proprietary Linux driver also allows for the following monitor arrangements:

* Single Head Mode (single display)
* Clone Mode (same content on both screens)
* Mirror Mode (same content on both screens, with identical display resolution and refresh rates)
* Big Desktop (one desktop stretched across two screens)
* Dual Head (separate instances of X running on each screen)
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I have not tested tv-out functions yet because i am having problems with driver and latest kernel and 3d acceleration.

fledermaus · 05-06-2006, 07:18 PM

well but I need to have tv in also, will check for that tomorrow morning

hellodio · 06-06-2006, 07:49 AM

There is TV out support for ATI Radeon cards in the propriety driver from ati. However, no overscan is possible (which leaves you with black bars, wrong aspect ratio etc.) and it does not support Overlay for Xvideo. You can only use OpenGL overlay, hence no zooming possible in your media players.

Nvidia cards ssem to be better supported in Linux. However, the newer cards sport a tv-out chip from Nvidia itself (NV17) which is not supported by nvtv (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nv-tv-out).

I myself use an old GeForce2 MX card w/ nvtv, which works perfectly in my Mediacenter, but 3D gaming sucks big time. For playing gamess I swith to my ATI Radeon and Windows every now and then.