Hi, Am Samstag, den 14.02.2009, 18:43 -0800 schrieb Trent Piepho: > On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, VDR User wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Didn't you say in your original post that you _haven't_ tested the > > >> code because of a conflict with your sata driver? It's not safe to > > > > > > I was able to test it later by getting a different sata card. > > > > Ahh, gotcha. Just curious, which card/drivers were you using that > > conflicted with bttv? > > It's a sil3124 PCI-X SATA II card that is extemely fussy. I can only get > to work if I have every other PCI card in my computer in a few specific > configurations. If I add the bt848 card, it won't work. If I *remove* my > sound card it won't work. If I put the SATA card in another slot it won't > work. If I move my cx88 HD-5500 card to another slot it won't work. If I > install the cx88 HD-3000 card in place of the HD-5500 it won't work. > > Only problem with the cheap VIA PCI SATA I card I'm using is that it has > much lower performance than the sil card when it works. I just need a new > computer, keeping this dual athlon system from 2001 working is getting too > hard. Faster Athlon-MP CPUs are insanely expensive on ebay. No PCI-E > slots for modern SATA or graphics cards. Doesn't work with AGP 8x. Won't > boot unless I go through a magic sequence of turning it on and off in quick > sequence. And I'm sick of messing with the closed source nvidia driver > that keeps getting worse and worse with each revision. if I would only know where to get such a more exotic bttv card others still seem to have, but have no time to test. ;) This will be the same on saa7134 and cx88xx soon. Cheers, Hermann -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
