Re: Merging DRM and fbdev

[Vladimir Dergachev]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004, Jon Smirl wrote:

> How is the tuner controlled? Is it a V4L insterface?

No, the tuner is controlled via Xserver Xv extension. No V4L interface is 
provided for tuner control.

                      best

                         Vladimir Dergachev

> On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:59:38 -0400 (EDT), Vladimir Dergachev
> <volodya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Jon, this is a common misconception - GATOS km module *does* provide a v4l
> > interface.
> >
> > What is different is that the device configuration (like setting the tuner
> > or encoding) is done by Xserver.
> >
> > All km does is check whether the card can supply a v4l stream and, if so,
> > it provides it. This is little different from a webcam driver, especially
> > if a webcam has its own on/off switch.
> >
> > The misconception arises from the fact that many v4l programs were only
> > made to work with bt848 cards - they would *not* work with webcams any
> > more than they would work with km.
> >
> >                                best
> >
> >                                  Vladimir Dergachev
> >
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