On Wed, 03 Jan 2001 03:12:10 -0700, Woody Green said:
Thanks Woody
> > Usual disclaimer - grin - 'works with Win98' - grin becomes sneer!!
> > It's known to run on other flavours of linux - Debian, SUSE, Redhat
>
> If it works there, then it should work elsewhere. Linux is Linux is
> Linux. Drivers are kernel issues and for it to not work under Mandrake
> while working everywhere else indicates that either your Mandrake is
> running an older kernel or every other Linux distro is comping with a
> pre-instaled kernel hack. The ideal quick solution is the find a
> working setup in one of those distros and take peak at the config files
> (specifically /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules - I do really wish
> they make up their minds.) It's quite possible that you will have to
> forget the autodetect utils and set it up yourself. And
> autodetect/config utilities vary greatly between distros as thats not
> Linux (kernel) specific.
Further research indicates the casr _IS_ detected - the confusion is/was with
what we saw returned : the reference to Auravision and the further indicator
that it's a 'video' device really threw the gas at the candle!! We have since
realised that thecard has video decode features - hence the 'video' reference
from /proc/pci.
> > We have a variety of tarballs parts of some do compile! The problems
> > all appear to be in one set of modules within these tarballs.
> >
> > If one attempts to use the ISP-supplied drivers for LM2.2.14 the install
> > script vomits by telling us that it cannot complete the install because
> > the modules where compiled for 2.2.14 and we have 2.2.14-15mdk - jeezz.
>
> A module should compile regardless. That sounds like they are trying to
> feed you a precompiled binary. In that case, then yes, they get picky
> about the version string. It could possibly be that their script to
> compile is set to only function for 2.2.14, but if that is the case, you
> should be able to run through the script with your favorite editor and
> change all kernel version refences (s/2.2.14/2.2.14-mdk15/) and then
> compile. When in doubt, make a backup and hack.
Yes We _are_ being fed a precomiled binary from the ISP, but there are
also tarballs from the card manufacturer and it's these that give us the
compilation problems.
Hence my original plea...
> > Does anyone have any experience with these cards.
> >
> Good luck.
Yup - seems we still need some of that.
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