Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jun 2001 18:46:11 +0200 | | From | Stelian Pop <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver |
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 04:58:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Yes. But, even if I know how to program the mchip to output to > > the video bus, there is something missing to enable overlay > > (either in the mchip or in the ati video driver). > > It could be using the YUV digital inputs to the ATI chip.
Most likely yes.
> It seems however > also quite likely to me that windows is doing the following > > 1. Issuing USB transfers which put the data into video ram overlay buffers > (ie the DMA from the USB controller)
:s/USB/PCI/g
The rest seems good to me :-) I even think that the docs we have are sufficient for this part (programming the mchip dma).
> 2. Using the YUV overlay/expand hardware in the ATI card > (see www.gatos.org for X stuff for ATI for this)
:s/www.gatos.org/www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
I took a quick look on their site but it seems that the Rage Mobility P/M card which this laptop has isn't yet supported.
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