Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 19:08:26 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Matrox Meteor and PPRO problem found Message-ID: <199611011808.TAA06577@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199611011738.JAA19083@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Nov 1, 96 09:38:20 am
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> >We anticipate making additional data and information available in the > >near future. > > > Intel and Matrox have jointly confirmed the cause of the recently reported > issue between the Matrox Meteor graphics adapter board and the Intel 440FX > chipset. The root cause is an illegal PCI signal generated by the PCI > interface chip on the adapter board. This is not an Intel Pentium(R) Pro > processor or an Intel 440FX chipset issue. > > For further information on this issue or Matrox products, please contact > your local Matrox sales representative, Matrox office or Matrox headquarters. > > Bob Cline > Intel Corporation > > ---------- > > The question now is when is Matrox, OmniMedia or Philips going to fix > the problem. For that I don't have an answer except to just wait because > I know both Matrox and OmniMedia are working on a solution to the problem. I guess we just have to wait for more details and hope that a software workaround can be implemented. We are stuck with our hardware, and Matrox, OmniMedia or Philips don't ship FreeBSD drivers :( On the subject of frame grabbers: does anyone have experience with a video acquisition board made by Winnov (http://www.winnov.com/) ? Would someone like to ask them about the availability of details that enable us to write a driver ? I have contacted them on this subject about 1 month ago and they said they are "evaluating my request" (forget the exact wording, the bottom line is that this question has remained unanswered, although I have to say they have been reasonably fast to respond to other questions). Maybe a bit of pressure would help. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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