On Friday 14 January 2005 11:35, Holly Bostick wrote:
What is the exact name and model number of the card, so you or we can look it up and *see* what chipset it is using
OK, after ripping my PC to bits and taking the card out this is what it is.
On the card: PAL-BG/I 62314 Rev BM
On the actual chip itself: 25878-12 C40276.2 9830 Korea
Well, you didn't really have to go so far; the make (brand) and model would have been fine (Google is your friend, you know), but since you have, what I see is "25878", which suggests a bt878 chipset (but I will Google that). I'll also see what that C40276 is, as it might well be related to Conexant in some way.
What precisely do you have in Device Drivers=>Multimedia Devices=>Video for Linux (or Video4Linux or V4L, or whatever it's called)?
I have the choice of:
Mediavision Pro Movie Studio For Linux Quickcam BW Video For Linux Quickcam Colour Video For Linux (EXPERIMENTAL) W9966CF Webcam (Flycam Supra and others) Video For Linux CPiA Video For Linux Stradis 4:2:2 MPEG-2 video driver (EXPERIMENTAL) Zoran ZR36057/36067 Video For Linux Sony Vaio Picturebook Motion Eye Video For Linux Siemens-Nixdorf 'Multimedia eXtention Board' Philips-Semiconductors 'dpc7146 demontration board' Hexium HV-PCI6 and Orion frame grabber Hexium Gemini frame grabber Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor) support
OK, that is weird. Bt848 for Linux should be right before Mediavision Pro Movie Studio for Linux, and I don't see why there would be a pre-requirement to enable that particular chipset (some kernel options do not become available until you enable another option somewhere else, but I can't see how that applies here).
What I would do at this point is:
1) check the changelog, and see if this driver was explicitly removed;
2) check bugzilla (bugzilla.gentoo.org) and see if anyone else has complained;
3) drop down to -r3 and see if the driver reapppears.
Unless someone else knows another reason that it might not be appearing, other than it not being there at all.
Holly
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