From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Sep 14 03:59:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA17332 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 03:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA17327 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 03:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roger@cs.strath.ac.uk) Received: from muir-10 (roger@muir-10.cs.strath.ac.uk [130.159.148.10]) by fleming.cs.strath.ac.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA05526 Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:58:10 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35FCF6C2.41C6@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:58:10 +0100 From: Roger Hardiman Organization: University of Strathclyde X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (X11; I; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Pusateri CC: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NogaTech PCMCIA video cards References: <199809111851.OAA11789@extreme.jcmax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tom About 12 months ago I contacted Nogatec about their PCMCIA cards as I needed some for my research project. Notatec said, they would love to help but a) all their staff were tied up with the Win NT driver b) they developed the chipset inside the card themselves. They have some internal design documents on how the chipset works, some details are just comments in their driver and some details of how the chipset works were just in their design staff's heads. So, they had no datasheet they could pass on. Now that was 12 months ago. The situation will be different now. If anywone wants to write a driver, I can give them the email of their engineers in Israel. BTW, it will not be like a Bt848. The PCMCIA bus is a 16 bit bus, more like ISA. Another point. The IBM Smart Capture Card is another video capture card which the FreeBSD PAO drivers support. After weeks of phoning IBM UK, I found they could order me some from Japan (where they sell them) for about 400 UK pounds. Roger Hardiman Strathclyde Uni Telepresence Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message