On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:54:37PM +0200, Jorik Jonker wrote: > Hi, > > I have been playing around a bit with my Indycam, but it seems that some work > needs to be done to get a nice picture. I've read that it has something to do > with clipping and that the brightness control register is silently ignored. I > happen to have an IRIX installtion on my Indy as well, and I tried finding > out how to read the VINO registers from IRIX, but with no luck. Indeed, there's probably no easy way to read VINO registers from userspace. > I suppose that there must be some kernel-space piece of code to read the GIO > (?) memory around adress 0x00080000, but I am not able to figure out how to > do this in IRIX. Perhaps someone (with al little bit more kernel-hacking > experience) could guide me a little bit on doing this? That's right idea ((?) - EISA memory space) > Are there other people beside ladis who are attemping to enhance the VINO > driver in the linux kernel, and if so, what are your findings? > I would really like to contribute to VINO development, but it's quite opaque > matter to me, as the VINO spec is quite unclear and I am not certain what's > exactly going wrong in the VINO driver. If you're seriously considering to help with VINO development this link: http://www.ac3.edu.au/SGI_Developer/books/DevDriver_PG/sgi_html/ch09.html looks like a good starting point. It's easy, just write driver which allows you to read VINO registers while capture in progress :) ladis
