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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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