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> Hi Ferenc,
> Thanks a lot for your skeleton driver, I was waiting for this kind of
> activity for two years now. I own a Elsa Victory Erazor with a Riva 128
> chip and a Micronas VPX 3225 for video in and out, this card up to now
> had no V4L support.
I nominate this programmer for the bi-annual award for outstanding
achievements in the area of implementing a Riva I2C interface sans video
capturing.
Frankly I don't believe nVidia will ever publicly release the required
information, and until Linux gains a dramatic increase in market share
there's little hope they will write a driver for us. Reverse engineering
is a brilliant idea if you can spare a few man years. However on the pro
side (if you don't insist on open source), I talked with an employee of
Elsa about the matter, naturally they have the needed information but
are legally forced to close it, and he mentioned they *might* support a
voluntary in-house developer.
If I'm not too far behind reality VA Linux could be interested as well.
I haven't heard about much video business at VA/PI yet, but their prime
relationships with nVidia, XFree86 or SGI are well known. A
collaborative effort to bring XFree86, v4l/2 and 3D gfx closer together
sounds pretty cool and well worth. (Think MPEG hw acceleration, live
video textures and the like.) Who would mind if we get a DRI integrated
video grabber for the Riva as a side effect.
Volunteers please write Elsa and VA directly, keyword "bargain", and
kindly post the results here.
Michael
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