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I've noticed that there is an experimental driver that calls the mmap
interface on the card (which should allow for record/playback), but I've
yet to get it working (something about invalid arguments to ioctl's
VIDIOCSYNC0/VIDIOCSYNC1). Ahh, well.

I'm going to attempt to drop in an old BT848 based capture card
(MiroMedia PCTV) and see if I can get capture to work with that.

Kinda defeats the purpose of having an AIW, but if at some point they
get support for ATI cards on the right track, at least I'll be able to
do picture-in-picture :).

Cheers,
Aaron C:\STEWART>


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan Julian
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 3:54 PM
To: mythtv-users@snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv-users] ATI All-in-Wonder 7500


I wish I would have perused the lists prior to buying all my hardware
(same for all my other linux-experiments). I got an AIW 7500 and after
installing all of gatos.sourceforge.net, I've got xawtv working great,
but no mythtv.
*THEN* I read the lists. <Sigh>, live and learn.

So let's turn this thread into a useful discussion for those of us with
all-in-wonder radeon cards...since it has been mentioned that the AIW
will work as a tuner OR a display device, what should we shop for? A
bttv tuner, or a new tv-out video card? Where does the radeon's strength
lie? Any negative feedback about the ATI remote may put my 7500 straight
on ebay.

Thanks for sharing!

> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:10:27 -0600
> From: "Drew Lenze" <ajlenze@clarkhome.org>
> To: <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
> Subject: [mythtv-users] ATI All-in-Wonder 7500
>
> I'm currently in the process of buying parts for a MythTV system. I'm

> = thinking about getting an ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 for both its TV
> Tuner = and its TV out graphics. Does anyone have an opinion about
> this video = card?
>
> Drew


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The Remote Sucks. Wanna sell it to me for $10? :)

Seriously, its a great remote, I am trying to pick up a few more. I have
actually used it over 70 feet with new batteries.


>
> I wish I would have perused the lists prior to buying all my hardware (same
> for all my other linux-experiments). I got an AIW 7500 and after installing
> all of gatos.sourceforge.net, I've got xawtv working great, but no mythtv.
> *THEN* I read the lists. <Sigh>, live and learn.
>
> So let's turn this thread into a useful discussion for those of us with
> all-in-wonder radeon cards...since it has been mentioned that the AIW will
> work as a tuner OR a display device, what should we shop for? A bttv tuner,
> or a new tv-out video card? Where does the radeon's strength lie? Any
> negative feedback about the ATI remote may put my 7500 straight on ebay.
>
> Thanks for sharing!
>
> > Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:10:27 -0600
> > From: "Drew Lenze" <ajlenze@clarkhome.org>
> > To: <mythtv-users@snowman.net>
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] ATI All-in-Wonder 7500
> >
> > I'm currently in the process of buying parts for a MythTV system. I'm =
> > thinking about getting an ATI All-in-Wonder 7500 for both its TV Tuner =
> > and its TV out graphics. Does anyone have an opinion about this video =
> > card?
> >
> > Drew
>
>
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How did you get yours to work? I am using RedHat 8.0 and I tried to install
the stuff from gatos project. The documentation is kinda "lite", I had some
compile errors. Is there anything more I can do?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net]On Behalf Of
> usenet@wingert.org
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 7:36 PM
> To: mythtv-users@snowman.net
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ATI All-in-Wonder 7500
>
>
> The Remote Sucks. Wanna sell it to me for $10? :)
>
> Seriously, its a great remote, I am trying to pick up a few
> more. I have
> actually used it over 70 feet with new batteries.

I have the exact same card, I personally use a seperate hapaugge wintv
turner card. Primarily because they are cheap and I find the tv out on
the ati card to be pretty good. Also, I figure if they ever get the issue
with the ATI card working it will be nice to have a PCI slot freed up.

I'm also very happy with the remote, it works great with mythtv and after
using it I find my IR remotes to be rather annoying.

> I wish I would have perused the lists prior to buying all my hardware
> (same for all my other linux-experiments). I got an AIW 7500 and after
> installing all of gatos.sourceforge.net, I've got xawtv working great,
> but no mythtv. *THEN* I read the lists. <Sigh>, live and learn.

The steps I used worked something like this, this is coming off the top of
my head, but should be pretty close:

1. Pulled down the ati_remote kernel module source from the gatos project.
wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gatos/ati_remote-2.1.1.tgz

2. Extract the tarball.
tar -xzvf ati_remote-2.1.1.tgz

3. Install the kernel sources
up2date kernel-source

4. cd into the driver directory
cd ati_remote-2.1.1

5. Fix the makefile (it looks for the kernel includes in /usr/src/linux
instead of /usr/src/linux-2.4)
cp Makefile Makefile.bad
sed "s/I\/usr\/src\/linux\//I\/usr\/src\/linux-2.4\//g" < Makefile.bad
> Makefile

6. Build the module
make

7. Install the module
make install

8. Redo the module dependencies.
depmod -a

9. Make sure the module loads.
modprobe ati_remote

10. Make the module load on startup (lazy method)
echo "/sbin/modprobe ati_remote" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.local

11. Set up the keys on the remote using xmodmap (I don't have my xmodmap
file handy here)

> How did you get yours to work? I am using RedHat 8.0 and I tried to
> install the stuff from gatos project. The documentation is kinda "lite",
> I had some compile errors. Is there anything more I can do?
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net
>> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces@snowman.net]On Behalf Of
>> usenet@wingert.org
>> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 7:36 PM
>> To: mythtv-users@snowman.net
>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ATI All-in-Wonder 7500
>>
>>
>> The Remote Sucks. Wanna sell it to me for $10? :)
>>
>> Seriously, its a great remote, I am trying to pick up a few
>> more. I have
>> actually used it over 70 feet with new batteries.
>
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