From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Jul 10 00:52:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA13627 for multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 00:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fsnif.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (root@fsnif.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.176.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA13614 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 00:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bochum.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (volker@zol.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.176.24]) by fsnif.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id JAA21755; Thu, 10 Jul 1997 09:52:02 +0200 (MET DST) To: Bernie Doehner Cc: Randall Hopper , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual PPro & Bt848 References: From: Volker Freiburg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 10 Jul 1997 09:48:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: Bernie Doehner's message of Wed, 9 Jul 1997 21:45:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Lines: 36 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In the meantime, I tested the Crystal 3D and the Stealth 2000. Might be of interest to some of you. Both work with the Hauppauge card using XFree3.3. Testbed was an old ASUS SP3G motherboard and a PCchips M537 (don't beat me for the latter ;-). While the ASUS works fine in full 768x576 the M537 locks up quite fast even in single field 384x288 mode with little other pci traffic. Bernie Doehner writes: > > Also I discovered that in the >past (before I shoved the cards around), the PCI network card and S3 >Virge card were sharing an interrupt. I am not sure if interrupts are even >used in DMA on the PC.. I didn't think so, but I am not a PC programmer. Interesting, does XFree make use of the video IRQ and what are the benefits? By now, I always configured PCI video cards with no IRQ. >Randall Hopper writes: >> As >> Amancio's mentioned, this sounds like a MB chipset issue. Since the >> Windoze S/W works for you, there's evidently something that can be done, >> but it might be a difficult find. It's interesting though that all the >> Pentium+ MBs don't see this particular problem. >> > As I mentioned above, there are some Pentium MB's which do not work well. The one I tested was probably the worsest I could get :-(. But if I understand right from all the information I have now, any 440FX based Dual PPro MB should do me, concerning my original question. -- Regards, -Volker Freiburg-