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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu>
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To: james@miller.cs.uwm.edu, se@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: Re: Matrox Meteor Video Capture Card Driver
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>  > I currently do not have much time to spend on this, but 
>  > if you have some idea what prevents the Meteor from 
>  > working, I might be able to change the PCI or NCR code 
>  > accordingly ...
>  
>  I think it might be a motherboard problem more than anything else.

Jim had problems with a motherboard with NCR SCSI and I also had problems
on completely different motherboard with NCR SCSI (DEC 90MHz PC). maybe
it is the PCI chipsets. Even Matrox put a general disclaimer that their
card may not work in some machines and then list a couple machines they
did try and it succeeded.

--mark.