If someone are curious about this card, I've now found it at eur258 in a
local shop in Munich, www.litec-Computer.de.
As for the status of driver development, it seems to be a bit quiet.
Anyone on this list know more? I've been around at pvr.sf.net, reading
up on the linuxtv mpeg2 mailing list, etc. I have installed the driver
and tried doing a cat /dev/video1 > /tmp/mpeg, but it segfaults, and I
get this message in syslog;
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging
request at virtual address dbae9410
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: printing eip:
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: da93616b
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: *pde = 15637067
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: *pte = 00000000
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: Oops: 0000
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: EIP:
0010:[keybdev:__insmod_keybdev_O/lib/modules/2.4.18-4mdk/kernel/drivers/i+-659093/96]
Tainted: P
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: EIP: 0010:[<da93616b>] Tainted: P
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: eax: 00000001 ebx: dbae93c0 ecx:
ce8f3460 edx: da936ee0
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: esi: 00000004 edi: d71ca3c8 ebp:
cee305a0 esp: cee39ef8
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: Process cat (pid: 2257, stackpage=cee39000)
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: Stack: d4b48be0 d21a83c0 00001601
c012190e 00000003 c013cb69 00000003 ce8f3460
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: d71ca3c0 ce8f3460 c01716dd
ce8f3460 cee305a0 c0273dc0 cee305a0 ce8f3460
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: ffffffe9 c1607360 c0133786
ce8f3460 cee305a0 00000000 3cc2b733 00000000
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: Call Trace: [in_group_p+30/48]
[vfs_permission+121/288] [devfs_open+173/352] [dentry_open+230/400]
[filp_open+77/96]
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: Call Trace: [<c012190e>] [<c013cb69>]
[<c01716dd>] [<c0133786>] [<c013368d>]
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: [getname+94/160] [sys_open+54/176]
[system_call+51/56]
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: [<c013caae>] [<c01339b6>] [<c0106f1b>]
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel:
Apr 21 14:57:23 atlantis kernel: Code: 8b 73 50 b8 f0 ff ff ff 85 f6 75
4b c7 43 50 01 00 00 00 8b
I have a few questions; Can the risc engine be used simultaneously for
direct capture (eg xawtv) and mpeg2 encoding? I guess this would require
special risc programming?
Sometimes I get cracks and noise with this card, when moving the mouse,
chaning focus, scrolling etc. Reading up a bit on discussion forums it
seems that this is a problem with the PAL version of this card. Are
there others with this card who have seen similar problems?
--
-Torgeir
