[MPlayer-users] Re: tvout on older ATI rage pro LT Mach64 working on fedora (semi long)

[Alex Deucher]

the DRI might not have been loaded.  Does you X log show anything
regarding the DRI?  Make sure you add the glx and dri modules to the
modules section of your config file and make sure the agpgart and
mach64 kernel modules are loaded.  Also depending on how much video ram
you have you might not be able to run the DRI at 1024x768.

eg,
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "dri"


Alex

--- Bret Hughes <bhughes at elevating.com> wrote:
> Cross posting to several lists, sorry if you are on more than one.
> 
> I have been working off and on on this for a while and finally got it
> to
> work:
> 
> Situation:  Old (>3 years) ati rage pro (xpert LCD) card with dvi and
> video outputs.  Wanted tvout and hard ware acceleration and scaling
> for
> mplayer
> 
> X sees the card (From /var/log/XFree86.0.log) as 
>  
> (--) PCI:*(0:9:0) ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro rev 220, Mem @
> 0xdf000000/24, 0xdefff000/12, I/O @ 0xd800/8, BIOS @ 0xdefc0000/17
> 
> and later 
> 
> (--) ATI(0): ATI 3D Rage LT Pro graphics controller detected.
> (--) ATI(0): Chip type 4C49 "LI", version 4, foundry UMC, class 0,
> revision 0x03.
> 
> 
> 
> This machine started out as a significantly modified RH7.1 with Xfree
> 4.1 box.
> 
> This is a mach64 card and I got the hardware acceleration working via
> simply overlaying the gatos.com ati.2 binaries over the original
> XFree
> 4.1 RH binaries.  I could not for the life of me find a non patch and
> compile solution for getting the tv out to provide anything other
> than a
> scrambled signal and I really wanted to alter the redhat rpms as
> little
> as possible.
> 
> I found several web sites and mails about people getting this to work
> under X 4.2 and 4.3 so I decided WTF, lets see if it works with
> fedora.
> 
> upgraded the 7.1 box to fedora and dinked with several of our
> programs
> until I got stuff pretty much working and then decided to try the
> retinal burn binaries with dri and tvout experimental code patched
> onto
> the gatos ati.2 code.
> 
> The primary tvout page is:
> http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/tvout.html
> 
> first backed up /usr/X11R6
> 
> cp -var /usr/X11R6 /usr/X11R6.before.gatos
> 
> DLed the bgz from 
> 
>
http://www.retinalburn.net/linux/dri-xv/mach64-dri-xv-20030413.i386.tar.bz2
> 
> bunzip2 mach64-dri-xv-20030413.i386.tar.bz2
> tar -xf mach64-dri-xv-20030413.i386.tar
> cd dripkg
> ./install.sh
> 
> the install script asks a few questions, found the correct kernel and
> compiled a drm module and installed the X code into /usr/X11R6 tree.
> 
> I plugged in the video input on my vcr and rebooted the box to make
> sure
> that the card initialized the video out.
> 
> Added option "TVOut" to the device section for the ati card in
> /etc/X11/XFConfig, set the default color depth to 16 and made sure
> that
> 800x600 was the first reslution found in the 16 bit subsection:
> 
> startx and bingo x on the tv and vga port.
> 
> back to XF86Config and added 1024x768 to the 16 bit subsection:
> 
> startx and bingo 1024x768 tvout!  vga is rolling at this resolution
> but
> this is good for now.
> 
> with mplayer installed from atrpms
> I can view a 320x240 mpeg scaled to fullscreen with 98% system idle
> and
> glxgears, which I have never actually seen run before, looks like:
> 
> don't know about the dri stuff yet it was not the primary goal.
> 
> [exhibitor1 at test1 tmp]$ glxgears
> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".
> 628 frames in 5.0 seconds = 125.600 FPS
> 612 frames in 5.0 seconds = 122.400 FPS
> 612 frames in 5.0 seconds = 122.400 FPS
> 689 frames in 5.0 seconds = 137.800 FPS
> 
> not real speedy I don't think but this is on a duron 800 and a pretty
> old card so I am happy so far.
> 
> I hope this helps some future surfer and if anyone has any additional
> tips I would be glad to hear them
> 
> 
> Bret
> 
> here is the relevant section of XF86Config
> 
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "ati"
>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>         BoardName   "ATI Mach64"
>         Option      "TVOut"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     16
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     16
>                 Modes   "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     24
>                 Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Section "DRI"
>         Group        0
>         Mode         0666
> EndSection
> 
> 
>

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