Martin's right, it's a Philips kind-a-thingy chipset, not Brooktree. As I am using Slackware 8 with a 2.4 kernel, I don't know whether I can get a driver for it. If I do, V4L2 has a version for 2.4 kernels, so in theory I should be ok.... right? I've checked Mark Sutton's help file, but it talks about 2.2 kernels and below. The same goes for the k-team website. I've also checked what Charlie told me, but since I have excellent recommendations for the Omnimedia P1S, I'm reluctant to look for something else. And it's a good guarantee to have a Meteor (even a cloned one). BTW, when I asked about drivers, etc., Omnimedia gave me the address for this list, as well as the meteor-users list (almost dead). Go figure... Thanks again, guys! -- Georgios Kapetanakis Department of Computer Science University of York ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Peach" <martinrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 6:45 PM Subject: Re: About a frame grabber > The meteor is the first grabber card that had support in linux. It is > using a Philips TDA7something chipset, not the bt8xx. My suse setup > seems to have meteor support built in (but no V4L2). I'm using the WinTV > card right now -- it works fine, costs a lot less than a meteor. For the > meteor see http://home.att.net/~marksu/meteorman.html or > http://www.k-team.com/software/linux.html > I have investigated it once when I tried to adapt it for DOS, but never > used it under linux. > /\/\/\/*=Martin > > Charlie Liu wrote: > > > > Georgios, > > > > First of all, you should know what is the grabbing chip on the board and if > > the chip is one of the Bt848/849/878/879. If it is not, you can not use > > V4L2/bttv to drive the board and you need to find other driver for your > > development. For example, if you decide to use Omnimedia and suppose it uses > > different grabbing chip, you should contact Omnimedia directly to asking the > > Linux driver. > > > > Secendly, if you want to do more investigation, you should find a > > Bt848/849/878/879 based frame grabbing board like Sensoray Model 611/311 > > (http://www.sensoray.com/html/frame_grabbers.htm) so that you can use > > V4L/bttv linux driver. Visit http://www.metzlerbros.org/bttv.html and > > http://bytesex.org/bttv/, you will get more detailed info. > > > > Good luck with your development. > > > > Charlie X. Liu > > > > Sensoray Company > > 7337 SW Tech Center Dr. > > Tigard, OR 97223, USA > > (503) 684-8073 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:video4linux-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Georgios > > Kapetanakis > > Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 3:45 AM > > To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: About a frame grabber > > > > Dear all, > > > > Although experienced in other fields, I have worked with frame grabbers only > > during the past month, because of my work. I worked with Data Translation's > > DT3131 and DT3120 frame grabbers (Windoze-only, not my choice), both of > > which have a large number of errors. > > > > The department is now prepared to invest a little money ($500 ~= £320 ~= 508 > > E) on buying a new frame grabber that is supported by Linux (hurrah!) and > > have asked me to investigate. After some searching and also from various > > recommendations, I have concluded that the Omnimedia Sequence P1S-P > > (http://www.omt.com) frame grabber, often referred to as "Matrox Meteor-I > > clone", would be the best in my case. > > > > My questions to all of you are the following. Can I use this frame grabber > > with V4L2? Do I need drivers? Is anyone familiar with this specific frame > > grabber? > > > > I apologise for asking such general questions, but I am new in this field > > and any help will be much appreciated. Thank you all. > > > > -- > > Georgios Kapetanakis > > Research Associate > > Department of Computer Science > > University of York, UK > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Video4linux-list mailing list > > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
