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From: Kenneth Merry <ken@plutotech.com>
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Subject: Re: Dual PPro & Bt848
In-Reply-To: <ujafjzwbvq.fsf@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> from Volker Freiburg at "Jul 7, 97 09:38:00 am"
To: volker@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Volker Freiburg)
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 09:19:32 -0600 (MDT)
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Howdy,

> Currently, I'm planning to use Bt848 based frame grabber cards
> in a Dual PPro board. The problem now is to find the right
> board.  Are there any experiences with this combination? Which
> boards work well with the Bt848 and which do not? Please tell me
> your success stories.
> 
> Thank you for your help,
>         -Volker Freiburg-
> 

	I've been using the Hauppauge WinCast/TV dbx board in my dual PPro
machine.  Here's the relevant hardware:

ASUS P/I-P65UP5 w/ C-P6ND  2 P6-200's, 256K
Matrox Millennium w/ 8MB WRAM
Hauppauge WinCast/TV dbx

	One thing to mention -- I'm running Accelerated X, not XFree86.
With Accelx, I can only run in "XImage" mode with fxtv.  XFree86 3.2 was a
little buggy...  (as far as Matrox support goes)  My guess is that 3.3 
would work a lot better, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet.


Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken@plutotech.com