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Date:      Sun, 25 May 1997 16:27:21 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Bernie Doehner <bad@uhf.wireless.net>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Amancio's latest mods to bt848 driver (removal of floating point) 
Message-ID:  <199705252327.QAA00368@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 May 1997 16:18:04 PDT." <19970525161804.37676@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> 

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Just go the intel web site and check out their video capture newsgroup
Ask them if there are known problems with the ISVR III and SiS or
VIA chipsets. ISVR III is intel's version of the Bt848 card and the
card does not have a tuner.

	Amancio

>From The Desk Of John-Mark Gurney :
> Bernie Doehner scribbled this message on May 25:
> > Just ran fxtv for over 30 minutes and didn't get ANY IDE timeouts, but I
> > also killed inetd/sendmail and other programs that are likely to exercise
> > the disk.
> > 
> > However, as soon as I started heavy disk activity (concatenating several
> > large files together), fxtv totaly froze and I had to reboot..  Not even
> > IDE timeout messages, everything, but fxtv froze.
> 
> hmm... maybe this is similar to my problems that I have... as one of the
> crashes that I had caused ed0: device timeout's...  i.e. intrupts stop
> working...
> 
> major different is that I'm running SCSI... and it might be a conflict
> between the two...  once I was able to manipulate windows and such.. but
> the windows were swapped out, so they were never updated...
> 
> > If I don't kill inetd/sendmail, etc and run fxtv (in a small window) in
> > doesn't fataly crash any more, just I do get ocassional IDE timeout
> > errors.
> > 
> > For those of you who "tuned in late", I must the only person trying to run
> > a Wincast board on a 486/120 and it seems the DMA is taking too much time
> > on the bus.
> 
> I don't know...  I think there is something else wrong...  as you can see,
> my system is a 486 bases system too...   have you check to make sure your
> mb is pci2.1 compliant?  I haven't gotten around to check mine out...
> 
> -- 
>   John-Mark Gurney                          Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954
>   Cu Networking
> 
>   Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD





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