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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,17:57 QUOTE

Has anyone managed to get the GATOS ATI.2 drivers to work is XFree86.dsl ??

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I've got an old-er notebook and trying to get mplayer to push full screen though the TV-out S-Video port.  I've been able to turn on the S-Video port using Atitvout utility at the console and then use mplayer with the -vo VESA parameter, but it is slow (e.g. some video stuttering) and doesn't use the ATI's hardware scaling features.

I can also startx once the TV-out is on (LCD goes blank) and get the DSL standard screen displayed on the TV (Everything is very tiny though).  And then I can start up gmplayer (using the menu), but I can't get it to play.  I don't really think it is using the ATI.2 driver at this point.

I have the suspicion that 1) either the gatos driver didn't install correctly, or 2) my XFConfig-4 file doesn't properly reference the use of the driver.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  My ultimate goal is to use this notebook to stream Xvid/DivX or Nero Digital movies from another server on the local network.  (And yes...I've tried some of the dedicated distro's that try to do this...GeexBox, MythTV(overkill), etc), but the problem always comes back to getting the ATI.2 driver installed correctly.

There are also some comments that XFree86 4.4.0 has the ATI drivers already ported in, but I don't know how to upgrade our 4.3.0 to 4.4.0


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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,18:08 QUOTE

Max -

SaidinUnleashed has spent untold hours trying to get ATI going in DSL. I don't know if he has tried these drivers or not. I am hoping that he hasn't and that they give some hope. He has endured endless ribbing from us nvidia people over how great 3D is in DSL.  :D

If he gets it, I image I'll hear a big TX "yeehaww" all the way up here in IN.  :;):

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Posted: Feb. 02 2005,00:50 QUOTE

Well, I live in Texas, and I guess if he works it out I'll have to think about buying a Hoosier t-shirt.

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Posted: Feb. 02 2005,01:18 QUOTE

I'll take that as a promise.

I'll see about working on this, after I get a few other things done first.

Like the new MyDSL menu system, but you didn't hear that from me.


-J.P.


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Posted: Feb. 02 2005,01:21 QUOTE

Actually, these are not 3D drivers...

They are for the TV features of All-in-wonder cards.

And I don't have an AIW.

But I haven't completely given up on the ati drivers.

-J.P.


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