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Re: [livid-dev] Margi (LSI-Logic chipset)
Hello,
I am still working on the oms plugin for the margi. I have been on
holidays for the last few weeks. When I left everything was working -
but now I need to fix it.
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 08:54:44PM +0100, Marcus O.C. Metzler wrote:
> Jeff Nessen writes:
> > There is a site called LinuxTV.org that has a driver for the LSI
> > Chipset. I don't know if you have seen this or not. The driver is sort
> > of complete, as it does not support Zoomed video yet. I have an IBM
> > thinkpad 600E with a Margi DVD-to-go card and DVD drive. I am running
> > Kernel 2.4.1 and used the OMS release. It works, but only at about 12
> > frames/sec. I would be happy to help in any wany I can (testing and
> > documenting, unfortunately, I quit programing about 10 years ago, and am
> > very rusty.)
> >
> > The link to the driver page is :
> >
> > http://www.linuxtv.org/developer/margi.xml
> >
> Malcolm Caldwell is working on an oms plugin for the Margi, but I haven't
> heard from him in a while.
>
> FYI, I am currently working on getting ZV running. The first step will
> be to try it with the Notebook I have here. It has a Ricoh 5c478
> PCMCIA Controller and an ATI mobility graphics chip. I already made
> some changes in the pcmcia_cs drivers to turn on the Ricohs ZV
> support, this should also be possible for other chips. Now, I want to
> see if the ATI card can be switched into ZV mode. My hope is that I
> can work with the livid-ati sources and use Xv to display the ZV
> picture.
>
> Marcus
>
>
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