Andrew Thomas writes: > I am trying to get a Kfir board working with the Linux driver. > > I know that the card does work, I've successfully used it on a > Windows 98 machine and encoded a NTSC stream. > > I've tried several versions of the linux kernel with Redhat 7.2 > filesystem/applications. The kernels I've used are built from 2.4.2 > (Redhat SRPM), 2.4.12 (Redhat SRPM) and 2.4.9 (vanilla Linus > distribution). > > I've also tried 4 different PC's: Pentium 166/Intel Triton; > 1Ghz P3 Serverworks chipset; 450Mhz P3 Intel chipset; 750 MHz P3 (different > intel chipset). [All of these machines are made by HP of course..] > > And I'm using the cvs version of the driver. I've used i2c-core and > i2c-algo-bits from both the kernel distribution and those in the cvs > tree. > > Moreover, I've also tried both PAL and NTSC signals. > > The behaviour is typically: the modules load successfully, but > > cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/foo.mpg > > generates a zero length file.
Which parameters did you set exactly? > However, on the Pentium machine, the same command locks up the system > (requiring a reset) - I used this hardware and Win98 to test the kfir card, > and and the card does work with win98 on that platform. > > I'd like to hear from anyone that has this card working. Could you > let me know what kernel version you're running, on what hardware, > and any changes you might have made to the driver? The last time I tried it was with a 2.4.10 kernel on an ASUS KG7 with 1.4GHz AMD Thunderbird and it worked without problems. > I've started tinkering with the source, but it's very difficult to > make progress as the driver is the only documentation I have. Are there > any documents available which describe the hardware? (at the level > of detail where it would be possible to maintain the driver) We got one datasheet (under NDA) which did not go into much detail, at least not nearly enough to write a driver. To write the driver Visiontech gave us the Windoze NT sources and some support over e-mail. Ralph
