Messages in this thread | | | From | Fred Wittekind <> | Subject | Please mail ATI | Date | Wed, 1 Apr 1998 18:36:29 -0500 (EST) |
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I currently have an ATI All-In-Wonder video card, that includes as one of it's features a TV-Tuner. Which is completly useless to me right now due to the lack of a Linux driver. I am fully willing to start work on such a driver, but ATI refuses to release information on the card so that I can do so.
They have stated in emails to me that the card contains hardware that they have licenced from other companys, and can therefore legally not release information on. I can only assume they are refering to the BT829 chip, and the Philips tuner. I have spec books on the Bt829, and the kernel allready has code in it to deal with the Philips tuner. The problem being the BT829's regisiters are accessed via what ATI calls a Multimedia channel, which I have no information on.
The favor I wish to ask of all of you, is for you to email devrel@atitech.ca, and request that they release information on there TV-Tuner card, so that a linux driver can be written. I figure if they get enough requests from enough people they might release the information.
Fred Wittekind
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