[linux-dvb] Re: bttv & twinhan thoughts

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> Gerd Knorr wrote:
> 
> >As initializing the analog video stuff makes the card lock the PCI bus
> >I see to way around this.  Basically you must not touch any of the video
> >registers, which is impossible to do without breaking the analog cards,
> >at least the ones which also don't have a PCI Subsystem ID.  Unless you
> >find some way to detect the card without the ID ...
> 
> This is the bit that has me wondering.
> If it's a standard connexant 878 chip on it (and it appears to be) then 
> there must be some strange setup that causes it to lock the PCI bus.. This 
> is the bit I'm wondering about. Why does the windows driver not do the 
> same..

There is no "the windows driver" for analog bt8xx cards. I suspect
at least some of the analog bt8xx windows drivers will crash
the box too, if you add a DVB bt8xx card.

Johannes


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