On 1/1/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 17:06 -0800, Noah Roberts wrote: > > the new ones had a different "Conexant" chipset that didn't have any > > viable Linux drivers - all alpha mode... > > It's also difficult to say what constitutes a "viable driver". Most > people consider that a driver is viable if it supports the basic > functions of the device, like playing audio, sending/receiving packets > or displaying images on the screen. Then you have a shrill minority who > consider a driver non-viable, broken or useless if it doesn't support > EVERY single little feature of the hardware or do everything the Windows > driver does. > > I guess my point is YMMV as always ;-) My definition of non-viable is crashes a lot, doesn't work at all (as in this case), or is missing key features, and in the case above it was two weeks of waiting before I could even get video w/o audio from that card. I did some modifications myself to make it even get video from the composite input. It probably works now...I put the thing up and its been gathering dust for about a year or more.
