gatos.conf(5)

💖 gatos.conf(5) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the GATOS Manual page for gatos.conf — yes the whole GATOS fam has its own little config file and this is the page that explains it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

gatos.conf — the configuration file of the GATOS package. that's it, that's the name, periodt 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the Gatos library uses a config file called gatos.conf when it boots itself up, and it lives at /etc/gatos.conf. that's the spot. that's where it hangs out 🦋

and inside there are some keywords, which we're gonna go through one by one. they're giving very much "settings menu but make it text file" and i'm obsessed 💜

• videoram <value> — tells Gatos the FULL amount of video RAM your card has, and value is measured in kilobytes. this one is optional!! because Gatos will autodetect it if it's not there. so if you don't know, just don't write it, she'll figure it out 💫
• buffermem <value> — the amount of video RAM you've reserved for GATOS (also peep XF86Config.sample for this one 👀), and value is in kilobytes too. this parameter is NOT optional. like at all. no cap, you must include it 🚨
• format <format> — tells Gatos which format is used in your area. optional! because Gatos will autodetect this if it's not present ✨

the formats available are, and i quote, listed right here bestie:

1. 1 NTSC-M — US and many others 🇺🇸
2. 2 NTSC-Japan — Japan 🇯🇵
3. 3 PAL-B — Many (Europe)
4. 3 PAL-D — China
5. 3 PAL-G — Many (Europe)
6. 3 PAL-H — Belgium
7. 3 PAL-I — Great Britain and others
8. 4 PAL-M — Brazil (NTSC-like PAL format)
9. 5 PAL-N — Paraguay, Uruguay
10. 6 SECAM — East Europe, France, Middle East
11. 7 PAL-Ncomb — Argentina

yes several of them share the number 3. that's not a typo, that's just how it is, don't come for me 😭

• i2c_mode <mode> — set the I2C mode manually if automatic detection fails. this keyword is commented out by default, and you should only use it if Gatos fails to initialize. like, it's the emergency backup plan, not the main character 💀

the modes available are:

1. 1 — Register type A: DAC_CNTL+GEN_TEST_CNTL Registers
2. 2 — Register type B: GP_IO Register
3. 3 — Rage PRO interface (I2C_CNTL_{0,1} registers)
4. 4 — Register type LG: GP_IO Register
5. 5 — MPP/ImpacTV interface

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

go read these next bestie, they're all in the same friend group:

gatos, gatos-conf, atitv, atisplit, atitogif, atitojpg, atitoppm, xatitv, yuvsum, scanpci.

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

for the authors, just refer to the gatos manual page. they're all credited over there 💖

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and that's the whole vibe check, babe 🌈 this page is from the GATOS Manual, dated 20 Dec 1999 — yes 1999, she's an elder icon and she still slays, and it's filed under gatos.conf(5). bye bestie, go reserve that buffer memory 💅✨