From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Nov 7 3:41:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87C4C37B4C5 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 03:41:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.strath.ac.uk (posh.dmem.strath.ac.uk [130.159.202.3]) by fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA23913 Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:41:38 GMT Message-ID: <3A07EA73.7BC8911A@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 11:41:39 +0000 From: Roger Hardiman Organization: University of Strathclyde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andresen,Jason R." Cc: Rogelio , freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: Matrox Meteor2 Drivers References: <000701c04810$05337970$d2b1d0d8@forefront.com> <3A06FB32.C73CD900@mitre.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jason, > I don't suppose these cards are similar to the old Matrox Meteors The Meteor 2 uses completely different hardware to the Meteor. > FreeBSD has a driver for the old ones (meteor(4), although it > looks like it hasn't been touched in ages). Yep, that driver supports the Meteor and Meteor PPB models. Driver works great. > Also, if the cards are BT484/878 based FreeBSD can handle them. I know quite a few people who were going to buy a Meteor 2 and then got a Bt848/878 card instead. Hauppauge do a 4 input card called the Impact VCB using the Bt878. A few other people do 4 input cards as well but I forget who now (I think one is Osprey) Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message