Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 15:12:58 +0200 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matrox Meteor Video Capture Card Driver Message-ID: <199508221312.AA01823@Sysiphos>
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In article <DDo1EM.oqq@ns1.nodak.edu>, Mark Tinguely writes: * Warning: the Meteor does not work with all PCI chipsets. A MERCURY chipset motherboard is almost certain to NOT work with the Meteor. A NEPTUNE chipset motherboard with a PCI video card may hang with heavy Meteor use. So it is wise to use a "SATURN" or "TRITON" chipset motherboard and also limit the number of PCI bus-mastering devices on that bus. We had difficulties getting the Meteor capture card to work with systems that also use the NCR PCI SCSI boards. It is also wise to have 16 or more Megabytes of RAM in the computer. Since I'm currently maintaining the PCI and NCR code, we might try to get the Matrox Meteor supported on more motherboards ... Do you have a complete set of technical documents for the Meteor, especially regarding the PCI bus interface ? I currently do not have much time to spend on this, but if you have some idea what prevents the Meteor from working, I might be able to change the PCI or NCR code accordingly ... There have been problems with PCI bursts of more than one cache line of data with the NCR, but I had thought the Saturn was one of the chip sets that need more attention than other Intel chip sets. Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/staff/esser/esser.html <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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