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Re: Indy's video input, sound



Carlos Izquierdo wrote:
> 
> 	Ok, I've just switched to kernel-image-2.4.26-r5k-ip22 (not familiar enough 
> with the architecture to try and build my own kernel). I see that many new 
> drivers have been added, including:
> 
> 	- A hal2 driver for sound (output works perfectly... and you say input 
> doesn't? why?)

Because that part of the driver isn't written yet.

> 	- A vino driver. However, when I try to load it, modprobe fails and a dmesg 
> shows the following message: "VINO: failed to read revision register". 
> Anybody knows what can cause this?
>
> 	Also, slightly off-topic, I miss utilities like lspci which allow you to view 
> the hardware present in the machine. Since the Indy has no PCI bus 
> whatsoever, are there similar tools in MIPS?

The firmware has a "hinv" (Hardware Inventory) command. There is no
similiar linux tool, which would be of little use anyway. Neither the
Indy nor the Indigo2 have optional hardware which is already supported
by linux.


Thiemo

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