I have the older Pixel View 5 n 1, I was using a driver by Itha..
something? from Israel I was not getting a good picture, it was very
grainy and kept jumping, sound was OK, I think it was XTVtap. I will be
obliged if you send me the driver.
Thanks,
Gerry
Nick Hill wrote:
>
> Sorry i didn't answer the TV part in muh last mail.
> Does u're PixelView have a BT848? if it does, then
> u're ready to rock. there're a truck load of players
> there, in fact, they come with the kernel too, in v4l.
>
> But if u're card is one of the unlucky ones (like
> mine), then there's a small hack to get it going. A
> guy started writing the driver back in 1998, and has
> abandoned all tries... i took up where he left off...
> and it comes a few times, but gives me a problem with
> some 2.3 kernels. But the 2.3pre series have pretty
> stable I2C support, and XF4 also has good support for
> it, and maybe i can pull it off... i can send u the
> driver right now, if u want to play around... i think
> once it is stable it can be integrated into the kernel
> v4l branch... atleast i hope... ;-)
>
> Nikhil.
> IGNULUG-HYD.
> --- Gerry Mascarenhas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Still does not work Nick. I have even tried the
> > default HorizSync 28-33
> > and the VertRefresh 43-72, these from the man
> > XF86Config but I still get
> > 640x480 res. BTW I too have a Pixelview TV.. et
> > all..Have you been able
> > to use the TV part and get a reasonable picture in
> > Linux
> >
> > Gerry
> >
> > Nick Hill wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi I've got the same card at home, along with
> > another,
> > > and happily running Xinerama and multi-head. Have
> > u
> > > tried adding the hsync and vsync lines to u're
> > monitor
> > > section? Try adding a Modes line in u're Screen
> > > section. I'll modify the config file u've sent me.
> > see
> > > if it works...
> > >
> > > > Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
> > > > Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
> > > > InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
> > > > InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
> > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > > > Section "Files"
> > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > > > Section "Module"
> > > > Load "extmod"
> > > > Load "xie"
> > > > Load "pex5"
> > > > Load "glx"
> > > > Load "dri"
> > > > Load "GLcore"
> > > > Load "dbe"
> > > > Load "record"
> > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > > > Section "InputDevice"
> > > > Identifier "Keyboard0"
> > > > Driver "keyboard"
> > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > > > Section "InputDevice"
> > > > Identifier "Mouse0"
> > > > Driver "mouse"
> > > > Option "Protocol" "auto"
> > > > Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
> > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > > > Section "Monitor"
> > > > Identifier "Monitor0"
> > > > VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
> > > > ModelName "Monitor Model"
> > > HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
> > > VertRefresh 50 - 90
> > > >
> > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > > > Section "Device"
> > > > Identifier "Cirrus Logic GD5446"
> > > > Driver "cirrus"
> > > > VendorName "Cirrus Logic"
> > > > BoardName "GD5446"
> > > > BusID "PCI:0:15:0"
> > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > > > Section "Screen"
> > > > Identifier "Screen0"
> > > > Device "Cirrus Logic GD5446"
> > > > Monitor "Monitor0"
> > > > SubSection "Display"
> > > > Depth 1
> > > > EndSubSection
> > > > SubSection "Display"
> > > > Depth 4
> > > > EndSubSection
> > > > SubSection "Display"
> > > > Depth 8
> > > Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
> > "640x480"
> > > > EndSubSection
> > > > SubSection "Display"
> > > > Depth 15
> > > > EndSubSection
> > > > SubSection "Display"
> > > > Depth 16
> > > Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
> > "640x480"
> > > > EndSubSection
> > > > SubSection "Display"
> > > > Depth 24
> > > > EndSubSection
> > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > > > Section "DRI"
> > > > EndSection
> > > >
> > >
> > > make the changes. and try starting u're server
> > with
> > > XFree86 -xf86config <file> -bpp 8 or 16. However
> > mine
> > > is not a Pure GD5446. its on my PixelView card...
> > > NEwayz... try this. lets see, if it doesn't work,
> > > maybe i new idea will... ;-)
> > >
> > > Nikhil.
> > > IGNULUG-HYD.
> > >
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