Does ATI rage 128 capture work with linux?

I am running Slack 9.1. I have an ATI rage 128 VIVO and I am trying to make
the viewing/capture part of this card work with drivers mad by the Gatos
project. The capture chip is rage theatre, and the chip is recognized when
I run XVinfo. I have compiled and installed Avview, but I get a very noisy
picture when using this application. I have modprobed videodev, km_drv and
km_api_drv. When trying to view picture with mplayer I get a message
telling that no v4l driver exists. Info on the Gatos home page tells that
this driver is video4linux compatible. BTW I am using PAL in the input
signal, and the card has composite input port.

E.R.

On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 19:21:03 +0100, Eivind Rygg <eirygg DeleteThis @broadpark.no> wrote:

>I am running Slack 9.1. I have an ATI rage 128 VIVO and I am trying to make
>the viewing/capture part of this card work with drivers mad by the Gatos
>project. The capture chip is rage theatre, and the chip is recognized when
>I run XVinfo. I have compiled and installed Avview, but I get a very noisy
>picture when using this application. I have modprobed videodev, km_drv and
>km_api_drv. When trying to view picture with mplayer I get a message
>telling that no v4l driver exists.

The km v4l driver doesn't work by itself, you have to set up the xvideo driver
with xawtv or avview first, then km provides a v4l-compatible way of capturing
video. But you can't use v4l by itself for viewing, and you can't use v4l
commands to change channels. I find this limitation to be very annoying and not
at all consistent with the Unix philosophies of modularization and file-oriented
I/O, but the developers are resistant to suggestions of changing it; see the
gatos-devel mailing list archives for details.

I did have GATOS working with my All-In-Wonder Rage 128 card. It worked very
well for viewing, but the km drivers were buggy at the time. I no longer use
that model, I have an All-In-Wonder Radeon 7500, so I can't help you with any
specific problems. I seem to remember seeing comments on the GATOS site that
some of the drivers have not been tested with PAL, but I don't know if that
applies to the current version.