Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-29 Thread Stelian Pop
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:11:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I imagine it is either using ZV port or VIP/MPP connector - I'll be happy > to help you to get it to work, provided you know the part that produces > video stream. This part is described in the chip's doc here:

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-29 Thread Stelian Pop
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 03:11:22PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I imagine it is either using ZV port or VIP/MPP connector - I'll be happy to help you to get it to work, provided you know the part that produces video stream. This part is described in the chip's doc here:

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-28 Thread volodya
Sorry for replying a couple of weeks late - I don't check linux-kernel that often. On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Stelian Pop wrote: > > I got just the YUV code from Gatos, and a few months ago it took less than > > an hour to merge just that part (and most of that was compiling and > > testing). > >

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-28 Thread volodya
Sorry for replying a couple of weeks late - I don't check linux-kernel that often. On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Stelian Pop wrote: I got just the YUV code from Gatos, and a few months ago it took less than an hour to merge just that part (and most of that was compiling and testing). Me too.

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-15 Thread Stelian Pop
In alcove.lists.linux.kernel, you wrote: > >Well, not quite... I've had several X lockups while using the YUV > >acceleration code. Let's say one lockup per half an hour. > > Strange. I've watched DVD's etc. Maybe it's not the Xv code, but your > camera code? It can be, of course. However I

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-15 Thread Stelian Pop
In alcove.lists.linux.kernel, you wrote: Well, not quite... I've had several X lockups while using the YUV acceleration code. Let's say one lockup per half an hour. Strange. I've watched DVD's etc. Maybe it's not the Xv code, but your camera code? It can be, of course. However I never

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, not quite... I've had several X lockups while using the YUV >acceleration code. Let's say one lockup per half an hour. Strange. I've watched DVD's etc. Maybe it's not the Xv code, but your camera code? >Even the

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stelian Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, not quite... I've had several X lockups while using the YUV acceleration code. Let's say one lockup per half an hour. Strange. I've watched DVD's etc. Maybe it's not the Xv code, but your camera code? Even the

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-13 Thread Alex Deucher
I actually heard from one of the xfree developers last night that the merge of the the YUV stuff at least is in progress. As I recall I think XvMC was for general media controls, but I could be wrong, it's been a while. Alex Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: >

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-13 Thread Alex Deucher
I'm not sure of the exact specs. Check out the Xfree CVS. Or ask on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ML. Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 12 Jun, Alex Deucher wrote: > > > Also there is some work on a new XvMC interface that would allow for > > extended DVD acceleration. > > Extended DVD

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-13 Thread Stelian Pop
> I got just the YUV code from Gatos, and a few months ago it took less than > an hour to merge just that part (and most of that was compiling and > testing). Me too. After some days playing with it it seems that the Rage Mobility Card (from the Vaio Picturebook C1VE <- that's where we started

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-13 Thread egger
On 12 Jun, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Yes. Although I hope it's going to be XvMPG2 or something - some cards > literally do all of the mpeg2 stuff, not just parts of it, and > limiting yourself to just the motion comp is limiting the protocol > quite badly. I recompiled a complete X with the

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-13 Thread egger
On 12 Jun, Linus Torvalds wrote: Yes. Although I hope it's going to be XvMPG2 or something - some cards literally do all of the mpeg2 stuff, not just parts of it, and limiting yourself to just the motion comp is limiting the protocol quite badly. I recompiled a complete X with the extended

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-13 Thread Stelian Pop
I got just the YUV code from Gatos, and a few months ago it took less than an hour to merge just that part (and most of that was compiling and testing). Me too. After some days playing with it it seems that the Rage Mobility Card (from the Vaio Picturebook C1VE - that's where we started the

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-13 Thread Alex Deucher
I'm not sure of the exact specs. Check out the Xfree CVS. Or ask on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ML. Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12 Jun, Alex Deucher wrote: Also there is some work on a new XvMC interface that would allow for extended DVD acceleration. Extended DVD acceleration

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-13 Thread Alex Deucher
I actually heard from one of the xfree developers last night that the merge of the the YUV stuff at least is in progress. As I recall I think XvMC was for general media controls, but I could be wrong, it's been a while. Alex Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Alex Deucher wrote:

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: > > As far as I know they have not been integrated into the Xfree tree. I > believe there were some disagreements about extending the Xv API since > GATOS added some extentions to support the AIW video capture cards. I > suppose someone could try and

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-12 Thread egger
On 12 Jun, Alex Deucher wrote: > Also there is some work on a new XvMC interface that would allow for > extended DVD acceleration. Extended DVD acceleration with Motion-Compensation? How? Servus, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-12 Thread Alex Deucher
As far as I know they have not been integrated into the Xfree tree. I believe there were some disagreements about extending the Xv API since GATOS added some extentions to support the AIW video capture cards. I suppose someone could try and submit a patch again and see if they'll take it.

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-12 Thread Alex Deucher
As far as I know they have not been integrated into the Xfree tree. I believe there were some disagreements about extending the Xv API since GATOS added some extentions to support the AIW video capture cards. I suppose someone could try and submit a patch again and see if they'll take it.

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-12 Thread egger
On 12 Jun, Alex Deucher wrote: Also there is some work on a new XvMC interface that would allow for extended DVD acceleration. Extended DVD acceleration with Motion-Compensation? How? Servus, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: As far as I know they have not been integrated into the Xfree tree. I believe there were some disagreements about extending the Xv API since GATOS added some extentions to support the AIW video capture cards. I suppose someone could try and submit

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-11 Thread egger
On 10 Jun, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I have to say that I have absolutely no idea. I only use little-endian > machines myself (and 99% x86). > Also, which ATI Xv stuff are you talking about? I'm talking about original ATI Xv stuff in X 4.1.0 making trouble. I'm really ccurious whether they

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-11 Thread egger
On 10 Jun, Linus Torvalds wrote: I have to say that I have absolutely no idea. I only use little-endian machines myself (and 99% x86). Also, which ATI Xv stuff are you talking about? I'm talking about original ATI Xv stuff in X 4.1.0 making trouble. I'm really ccurious whether they fixed

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 10 Jun, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I've not figured out why the ATI Xv stuff from gatos seems to not have > > made it into the XFree86 CVS tree - it works better than much of the > > Xv stuff for some other chipsets that _are_ in the CVS

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-10 Thread egger
On 10 Jun, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I've not figured out why the ATI Xv stuff from gatos seems to not have > made it into the XFree86 CVS tree - it works better than much of the > Xv stuff for some other chipsets that _are_ in the CVS tree. > I imported it into the XFree86 CVS some months ago,

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2. Using the YUV overlay/expand hardware in the ATI card >> (see www.gatos.org for X stuff for ATI for this) > >:s/www.gatos.org/www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ > >I took a quick look on their site but it seems that

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-10 Thread Stelian Pop
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:58:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Yes. But, even if I know how to program the mchip to output to > > the video bus, there is something missing to enable overlay > > (either in the mchip or in the ati video driver). > > It could be using the YUV digital inputs to the

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-10 Thread Stelian Pop
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 03:39:26PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > The driver does not yet support overlay (no docs... :-( ), but it does = > > support > > Are you sure the hardware supports overlay ? Yes. But, even if I know how to program the mchip to output to the video bus, there is something

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-10 Thread Stelian Pop
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:58:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Yes. But, even if I know how to program the mchip to output to the video bus, there is something missing to enable overlay (either in the mchip or in the ati video driver). It could be using the YUV digital inputs to the ATI

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stelian Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Using the YUV overlay/expand hardware in the ATI card (see www.gatos.org for X stuff for ATI for this) :s/www.gatos.org/www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/ I took a quick look on their site but it seems that the Rage

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-10 Thread egger
On 10 Jun, Linus Torvalds wrote: I've not figured out why the ATI Xv stuff from gatos seems to not have made it into the XFree86 CVS tree - it works better than much of the Xv stuff for some other chipsets that _are_ in the CVS tree. I imported it into the XFree86 CVS some months ago, it

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 Jun, Linus Torvalds wrote: I've not figured out why the ATI Xv stuff from gatos seems to not have made it into the XFree86 CVS tree - it works better than much of the Xv stuff for some other chipsets that _are_ in the CVS tree. I

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-10 Thread Stelian Pop
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 03:39:26PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: The driver does not yet support overlay (no docs... :-( ), but it does = support Are you sure the hardware supports overlay ? Yes. But, even if I know how to program the mchip to output to the video bus, there is something missing