Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

From: James Bruce
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 10:53:34 EST


Sorry, I wasn't clear in the previous email; I did try the card= option anyway. I wrote a looping script and tested first 70 card= options, and none worked properly for streaming capture. Some did show different behavior though. I might try the remaining 50 later today.

I did notice one strange thing though; the card= option is only applied to the first bttv card. All remaining cards in the system are still autodetected (which ends up assuming card=0 in my case). Not sure if this is the intended behavior or not, since someone really could run two different bttv cards in the same system.

- Jim Bruce

Paulo Marques wrote:
James Bruce wrote:

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The card= option didn't help in my case since my card is not in the list; For thess cards we went off the reccomendation of other people doing machine vision in Linux; Next time I guess we'll go name brand again...


I think you should try it anyway, using all the options, because it is very likely that your card might be compatible with one of the listed ones. This is specially true if you don't care about the tuner.

Just modprobe the bttv module with card=X option, test it, rmmod it, modprobe it again with card=X+1, etc., until you find a number that fits.
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