Re: ATI Radeon 9600 and Gatos

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, persall88 wrote:

>
> I took some advice from the gatos-devel mailing list, and upgraded
> my Debian 3.1 Sarge to the new Debian Testing version called Etch
> (this uses kernel 2.6.15-1-486), and proceeded to try to get the Gatos
> packages to work on this ATI Radeon 9600.  I finally got stuck on
> the compile of km.  Here is what I did, up to this point.
> Perhaps someone could help me figure out what to do next.
>
> I downloaded and installed linux-kernel-headers-2.6.15-1-486 and
> linux-source-2.6.15, also Debian pkgs.
> Then I downloaded and installed ATI.4.4.0: X.org 6.7.0 driver from Gatos.

According to <http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xorg.html> Debian Testing 
has X.org 7.0. It already includes Gatos code, so you don't need to 
install ATI drivers from the Gatos site (but you still need km for capture).

> Then it was time to compile ffmpeg-0.4.8.
> However now I got an error that I don't know how to fix.
>   Compile error:
>     In file included from avcodec.h:14,
>          from common.c:27:
>     common.h:66: error: array type has incomplete element type
>     common.h:70: error: array type has incomplete element type
>     make[1]: *** [common.o] Error 1
>     make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/ffmpeg-0.4.8/libavcodec'

Google reveals (http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-02/msg00053.html) that 
recent gcc versions don't accept definitions of type "extern struct bla 
array[];"

You have three options:

1) Use older gcc. Versions prior to 4.0 (?) do compile it OK.

2) Fix ffmpeg-0.4.8. <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-02/msg00067.html> 
gives a possible workaround.

3) Port Avview to use current ffmpeg (which hopefully has fixed the 
issue). Like I said, I once tried this but it wasn't trivial. OTOH, if you 
succeed, the result would be much appreciated ;)

> At the ffmpeg website, you need something called "svn" which I
> don't know what it is, and even if I did, I don't know if it's
> going to work with Avview or not.

svn is a version control system, similar to cvs. If you have ever 
downloaded source codes with cvs, using svn is a piece of cake.

-- 
Antti Ajanki

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