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Re: Indy's video input, sound



On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 05:19:19PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> 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.

It is already written, but hardware doesn't work as I'd expect. Any help
with debugging would be greatly appreciated.

> > 	- 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?

Strange. Please show output of hinv command as Thiemo suggested below.

> > 	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.

	ladis



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