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Subject: Re: Amancio's latest mods to bt848 driver (removal of floating point)
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> Just to let everyone know.. I picked up Amancio's modified bt848 driver
> and recompiled it into my kernel.  Have only tested it for about 10-15
> minutes so far, but my impression is that it's a definite improvement.
> 
> I don't know if this was the intention, but the IDE timeouts that I was
> frequently getting before seem to have been reduced in frequency and
> duration.  Now to look at the code and try to understand what the
> difference between it and the committed is.
> 
> Bernie
> 

Actualy, when I maxed the size of the fxtv window I got another nasty
system lockup. I'll try again and see if maybe the problem is windows
size.

Bernie