On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 23:12:43 +0100 Torsten Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > > thanks for the hint. But it looks like my card is damaged. > > As i think about replacing it now i thought i'd first ask > > here for recommendations. What card should i buy for digital > > video editing under Linux? > > i got the hint by private mail to clean the contacts of the PCI card. > That actually worked, now the card is recognised and modprobing > saa7110, adv7175 and zr36067 gives correct entries in /var/log/messages. > (First capturing failed, but that may be a problem of the cables). You might also want to check with a magnifying glass that the traces on the card (the big gold-plated ones) that go inside the PCI connector itself are well separated. If they are not, _gently_ using a box cutter between them is the method used by pros, I saw it done on old Dual Pentium Pro CPU boards from Compaq that used a connector not unlike slot-I. After sometime, the metal seems to "leak" (after all, it's only a layer) between traces in the connectors (because they are mechanically stressed) and cause shortcircuits. In most case serrors will be benign, in some cases you get random errors, but in extreme cases, the shortcircuit can actually kill the board. My own rule on this is only try to fix error-prone boards, never working ones :) khaqq ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
