Hi Bryan, On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 14:35, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Ronald Bultje video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > This has to do with buffersize images and limitations in the linux > > kernel to give us bigger contiguous buffers and of the buz card to > > cope with non-contiguous buffers, as far as I know. It's one of > > these things I actually don't understand fully, but that might come > > later on ;-). > > Don't pin me down on this one ;-). > > Do you have any URLs to more info? Or possibly source code files that > are relevant to this issue? Any /proc hacks that address it??? Nope, there's not much you can do currently. Once I know what causes this (i.e. know for sure), I'll see how to fix it. It should be fixable. > Makes sense. I'm actually not getting audio on capture, although could > that might be a sound daemon setup problem (I don't have esd properly > setup to allow more than one tap on /dev/dsp)? killall esd :-). > > Actually, the Tyan Tiger is a kt266A-based mainboard, isn't it? > > There are various mainboards in the Tiger series. The Tiger MP is the > AMD760MP (762 north, 766 south) chipset, dual Athlon. The 766 > southbridge (as well as the 768 used in the AMD760MPX) _may_ be based on > the ViA 686/8233 southbridge design, but I'm not sure. I would say not > because a number of issues I've had with ViA 686/8233 southbridges don't > seem to have issues on the AMD760MP. According to http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigermp.html, it doesn't have a VIA chipset... Too bad, you would have been a nice research subject. ;-). > A number of post-2.4.5 kernels seem to be working with ViA chipsets -- > at least some of the newer ones. It appears that a number of the > 686/8233 southbridge issues have been addressed. The problem is mainly that the boards work well, but that DC10+/Buz cards in combination with a kt266A board don't always work well... More precisely, they don't work at all. Ronald -- - .-. - /V\ | Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - // \\ | Running: Linux 2.4.18-XFS and OpenBSD 3.0 - /( )\ | http://ronald.bitfreak.net/ - ^^-^^
