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Date:      Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:05:18 -0600 (CST)
From:      mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, step@acm.org
Subject:   Re: meteor driver problems
Message-ID:  <200111221505.fAMF5I796001@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011122115948.A25406@step.cg.tuwien.ac.at>

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> i've been experiencing weird problems with the Meteor device driver..
> on two machines of the seven we've installed, the METEOR_CAP_SINGLE
> ioctl locks up the process once in a while (every few hours).
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the original metoer card's PCI chipset had a known and uncorrectable
hardware incompatibility with PCI 2.0 chipsets that caused lockup.
Matrox had to change the components on the next generation of cards
and at the time Matrox was not too generous with documentation, so
the multimedia developers switched to the Brooktree 848 video capture
chipset based cards.

My guess every computer that you used to test the card uses the PCI 2.x
chipset (a safe guess since it has been a long time since a manufacturer
used a PCI 1.x chipset).

--mark tinguely.

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