I have a Radeon 8500 video card which I use as video-in for my computer to act as my tv monitor. Sometime since the Summer, this has stopped working and I am having no luck finding any helpful information by searching. Most searches just refer to the old GATOS project, which hasn't done anything for years, but supposedly has been rolled into xorg's drivers.
Now, I know my card uses a "video overlay" which most tv-type programs don't seem to care about. If I could get a /dev/video* setup with v4l or something similar, I'd love to give that a try, but again, searches don't flush out anything curent sounding. I used to use GATOS's avview to open the AV-in window, but that stopped working with X a year or so ago, at which point I went to the less reliable but functional xawtv. That worked for a while by itself, but then I needed to run kdetv first, and then xawtv (and then kdetv again to shut off the audio). This was especially odd because kdetv didn't actually ever get the actual video, but it would reliably get things setup so xawtv could work. Xawtv still had problems, though: it would just go blank if you resized it or made it full screen. The video would come back if you brought up xawtv's menu, so the process became: start kdetv, quit it, start xawtv, make it fullscreen, right click twice to get the menu and get rid of it again, use the video, quit xawtv, start kdetv, and finally quit it. What a mess! At least it worked, though. Now, it seems as though my overlay device just isn't there. Kdetv says there's no video device at all and xawtv reports "no usable video port found". I've looked through the xorg log, and there doesn't seem to be any kind of error to follow up on. I haven't made any config changes since back when it was working. All that's changed is there have been updates installed (debian testing), but I didn't use the video-in for several months, so I have no idea what batch of updates broke things. So, my questions: - Can I get a /dev/video* for the Radeon 8500 (R200) video input? How? - Can I get directions to the best place to ask this question and get help, if there are no answers here? - Are there any newer or more reliable programs I could use besides kdetv and xawtv that will work with the 8500's video overlay thing? - What happened? How should I have found out? - Anything else I can do, besides buying new hardware (not currently an option) References: - results of "xawtv -v -2" http://concordantthought.com/personal/robert/relay/xawtv-v-2.20110101.log - Xorg log http://concordantthought.com/personal/robert/relay/Xorg.0.20110101.log Thanks for any help, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110102042500.ge4...@leary.csoft.net
