[linux-dvb] Re: bttv & twinhan thoughts

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> 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.
Righto, let me rephrase that then.
The windows driver for my Flyvideo 98, which also happens to pick up the DVB card when I insert it 
and not lock the box up.

Brad


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