List:       linux-video
Subject:    [video4linux] ATI All-in-Wonder abd bt829
From:       Roger Hardiman <roger () cs ! strath ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1998-10-01 8:50:41

Hi,
I remember reading on the web site that no one was working on the
ATI-All-in-wonder card as ATI would not give details of how the
bt829 was wired.

What is the current situation.

Someone I know may be offering to do all the hard work.


Bye
Roger Hardiman
Strathclyde University Telepresence Group
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List:       linux-video
Subject:    Re: [video4linux] ATI All-in-Wonder abd bt829
From:       Martin Pilaski <pilaski () mathi ! uni-heidelberg ! DE>
Date:       1998-10-01 12:15:10

You wrote:
> Hi,
> I remember reading on the web site that no one was working on the
> ATI-All-in-wonder card as ATI would not give details of how the
> bt829 was wired.
>
> What is the current situation.

I began to work on this driver several months ago, for by some  
lucky incident I got the manuals from ATI. Unfortunatly you need to  
know more that what's in these manuals. So I asked ATI to provide me  
with some more "hints". They refused to help, for they are about to  
sign an agreement with some third ( commercial ???) party that  
wants to develop a driver. My personal guess is that they are either  
talking to S.u.S.E or SciTech Software, but this is no official  
information.

Nevertheless I have not yet stopped looking for a solution to my  
problems. Right now the driver is can open an overlay window, get  
the scaler display something, talk to the bt829 via i2c and the  
bt829 even indicates that there is a valid video source present. The  
missing part is the link between bt829 and RagePro. I still have no  
Idea how to get this done.

Apart from the fact that this driver is not in any usable  
condition, I think it is no good idea to make it a video4linux  
driver. Unlike the bt848 drivers this one should rather belong to  
the Xserver. Video captureing with the All-In-Wonder Pro means  
writing drirectly to the framebuffer and to RagePro registers. And  
this is X's business. ( I hope this could change with GGI )


> Someone I know may be offering to do all the hard work.

This sounds like an nice offer, but for I signed a NDA with ATI (  
and they still refuse to give details, funny, ey ?? ) I may not give  
away any docs or sources until I get permission by ATI. For I do  
not think this will ever happen the only way might be to distribute  
binaries ( as soon as it works ).

If somone is still looking for an insight into what the driver  
does, the windows98 DDK might be useful. ( But again there seems to  
be no low level information )


Cheers,

MArtin
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