From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 23 23:30:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA21057 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 23:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA20984; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 23:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA00565; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 23:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609240630.XAA00565@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: hackers@freebsd.org cc: multimedia@freebsd.org, "Rodney W. Grimes" Subject: DOES NOT WORK : Matrox Meteor , OmniMedia and PPRO 200MHZ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 23:30:41 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well, I just recently bought a PPRO and I am very happy with it. There is only problem in that the video capture boards based upon the Phillips SAA 7196 doesn't work with the Intel 82440FX (Natoma) PCI chipset. Matrox and Intel are aware of the problem and so far I heard that Matrox claims that is an Intel chipset problem. Just for kick I brought in an OmniMedia P1SC (Matrox Clone ) and sure enought exhibits the same problem as my Matrox Meteor. The problem is simple: if you use vic and crank up the transmission rate to 128 or higher -- your PCI bus goes hay wire . Interestingly enough my program rah.star-gate.com:/pub/tv-0.2.tar.gz and http://www.ishiboo.com/~nirva/Projects/metgrab don't seem to exhibit the PCI bug hang even thought both programs flood the PCI bus . What is metgrab? Well is a cool program written by Danny Dulai which using a Matrox Meteor does image processing on the fly -- imagine using xv to get outline , or negative view, etc... except that metgrab on a PPRO 200 does it in real time 8) Amancio