On Wednesday 04 January 2006 10:42, Jan de Groot wrote: > The saa7134 is PCI 2.2. I've seen VIA USB 2.0 cards which are PCI 2.2 > that don't even work with Intel i440BX chipsets: the device gets > detected in Win98SE, but you get a BSOD, or in Windows XP: the device > gets detected but everything you connect to it doesn't work.
ah ... that explains it then. i suppose a 9 year old computer has not pci 2.2... but pinnacle didn't write on the box anywhere something about pci 2.2 now i checked. how can they sell something just like that? (compared to usb where every only-usb-2.0 product is specified like that). anyway, thanx for this info that explains it for me. > Also, the saa7134 driver in linux only supports specific cards. I bought > a no-name thingy a while ago, to return it and get a Pinnacle PCTV back > for it two days later. Both were saa7134 cards, but the pinnacle card > worked out of the box :) i suppose you have a pci 2.2 system, then ;-) i see... so i have to buy a new computer (~1000CHF) to watch tv? anyone can advice a barebone system as cheap as possible and as quiet as possible? thanx - D -- 266MHz is enough! _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
