> I wonder how the windows drivers are made, because it appears that
> they manage to work on all revisions. They work on mine, at least
> that I know. Is there a way to detect the board revision?
The windows drivers don't have to work with different vendors cards,
which makes it alot simplier for them[1]. The "sound not working" issue
likely isn't a FlyVideo thing as I've seen reports about this for other
cards too.
> Inserting
> module saa7134 on my linux box issues the warning about
> eprom missing, so, is there another way that the software could
> automaticaly detect the board revision and act upon this
> information?
The eeprom contains the PCI Subsystem ID (which can be used to identify
cards of different vendors). Some cards don't have a eeprom, thus don't
have different subsystem IDs and thus can't be autodetected by the
driver (i.e. you have to pass card=n to saa7134).
Gerd
[1] Well, until you decide to install two cards from different vendors.
The Hauppauge bt878 drivers I have show *ähem* intresting behaviour
if you plug in an Hauppauge WinTV and a TV-card from Terratec ...
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You can't please everybody. And usually if you _try_ to please
everybody, the end result is one big mess.
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