Gatos - ATI-TV for GNU/Linux
The GATOS (General ATI TV and Overlay Software) is an effort to create standard drivers for all currently unsupported features of ATI video cards, specifically TV features.
The GATOS homepage is located at:
http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia/gatos/
Updates, news, additional documentation and the FAQ can be found there.
Insomnia (Stea Greene) <insomnia AT core DOT binghamton DOT edu> send bug reports and code patches to this address.
−GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD
(only tested on x86).
−ATI |
All-In-Wonder, All-In-Wonder Pro or Rage II/Pro with ATI-TV tuner card. Limited support for the All-In-Wonder 128 and Rage128 with ATI-TV tuner card. |
−XFree86
recommended, but not required.
There are many programs packaged with GATOS:
- xatitv : GUI "TV in a window" application.
- atitv : Simple text-mode program.
- gatos-conf : GUI GATOS configuration application.
- atitoppm,
- atitogif,
- atitojpg,
- yuvsum,
- atisplit : YUV conversion program.
- scanpci : PCI bus utility.
To submit a bug report, send an e-mail to:
Insomnia (Stea Greene) <insomnia AT core DOT binghamton DOT edu>
with a subject line of:
GATOS BUG: <brief description...>
Then in the main body of the message:
− Describe the bug in detail, including how to repeat the
misbehavior,
− Specify what version of GATOS and what version of
IBTK you are using,
− Then include a dump of "xatitv -v" (either as a MIME
attachment or right in the message),
− Include a patch of any changes you made to the code that may
fix the problem. See PATCHES below,
When a bug is fixed or if the bug report is not understood, you
will get a reply, so make sure your message is properly reply-able.
To create a patch, first make sure you have a full tree of both the
original and the modified trees (herin called "gatos−orig" and
"gatos−new" respectively).
Make sure each tree is clean by using:
−> |
make distclean |
in EACH directory. Then change to the directory immediately above
these two directories and use the following command:
−> |
diff −ur gatos−orig gatos−new > gatos−new−patch |
Look at gatos−new−patch (with a text editor or viewer) and make sure
nothing is changed that you didn’t intend to be. You can submit this
patch to me either included in an e−mail, or as a MIME attachment, or
you can compress it and send it as a MIME attachment, as follows:
Compress it with:
−> |
gzip -9 gatos−new−patch |
Then send gatos−new−patch.gz to me as a MIME attachment.
If there is a problem with the patch, or I have a question or the
patch/description is not understood, you will get a reply, so make sure
your message is properly reply-able.
Files not covered by the main GATOS license (GNU Public
License):
delay.S, delay.h and linkage.h are from the Linux 2.0.36 kernel
sources (slightly modified) and are Copyright (C) 1993 by Linus
Torvalds.
scanpci.c is from XFree86 3.3.3 and is Copyright (C) 1995 by Robin
Cutshaw.
pci.c is modified from scanpci.c and is Copyright (C) 1995+1999 by
Robin Cutshaw and Øyvind Aabling.
Primary Authors:
Øyvind Aabling <Oyvind DOT Aabling AT uni-c DOT dk>
Daniel Caujolle-Bert <lobadia AT club-internet DOT fr>
Vladimir Dergachev <vdergach AT sas DOT upenn DOT edu>
Insomnia (Stea Greene) <insomnia AT core DOT binghamton DOT edu>
Christian Lupien <lupien AT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
Octavian PURDILA <purdila AT sundy DOT cs DOT pub DOT ro>
Other Contributors:
Bob Bell <bbell AT macroped DOT com>
Bruce Forsberg <forsberg AT adnc DOT com>
Chris Hardy <chris AT hardys DOT org>
Victor Bogado da Silva Lins <bogado AT openlink DOT com DOT br>
Ken Dresser <Ken AT dresser DOT net>
Jan ONDREJ <ondrejj AT salstar DOT shadow DOT sk>
techt <techt AT pikeonline DOT net>
hook <hook AT netrio DOT com DOT br>
Rodrigo Ventura <yoda AT isr DOT ist DOT utl DOT pt>
Based on:
−aiwtv-0.22
by Øyvind Aabling.
−aiwtv-0.20uX
by Øyvind Aabling, Christian Lupien, Vladimir Dergachev and Bruce Forsberg.
−atitv-0.21#X
by Øyvind Aabling, Insomnia (Stea Greene) and Bruce Forsberg.
−Limited documentation and some support
from ATI Technologies Inc.