Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268036AbUJCR4B (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:56:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268037AbUJCR4B (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:56:01 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.206]:14860 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268036AbUJCRz6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:55:58 -0400 Message-ID: <9e473391041003105511b77003@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 13:55:53 -0400 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: Vladimir Dergachev Subject: Re: Merging DRM and fbdev Cc: Dave Airlie , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, lkml In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <9e47339104100220553c57624a@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910410030833e8a6683@mail.gmail.com> <9e4733910410030924214dd3e3@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1717 Lines: 52 How is the tuner controlled? Is it a V4L insterface? On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:59:38 -0400 (EDT), Vladimir Dergachev 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 > > > > > -- > > Jon Smirl > > jonsmirl@gmail.com > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal > > Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us > > Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more > > http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > Dri-devel mailing list > > Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel > > > -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/