From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f219.google.com ([209.85.218.219]:36184 "EHLO mail-bw0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755932Ab0ARSuM (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:50:12 -0500 Received: by bwz19 with SMTP id 19so2006595bwz.28 for ; Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:50:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B54AD5B.7040305@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:50:03 +0100 From: fogna MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Markus Rechberger CC: Devin Heitmueller , Adriano Gigante , Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: Info References: <829197380912220750j116894baw8343010b123f929@mail.gmail.com> <829197381001180716v59b84ee2ia8ca2d9be4be5b22@mail.gmail.com> <4B54864E.1050801@yahoo.it> <829197381001180817r561bb1cdj9edda6ab3affbba0@mail.gmail.com> <829197381001180836ybc4a4c6l6cf1c2bbabdf96b8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Il 01/18/2010 06:33 PM, Markus Rechberger ha scritto: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Devin Heitmueller > wrote: > >> Hello Markus, >> >> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Markus Rechberger >> wrote: >> >>> Just fyi there's a hardware bug with the 0072/terratec hybrid xs fm >>> (cx25843 - xc5000): >>> >>> http://img91.imageshack.us/i/00000004qf8.png/ >>> http://img104.imageshack.us/i/00000009cp4.png/ >>> >>> nothing that can be fixed with the driver. >>> >> Interesting. If it cannot be fixed with the driver, how does the >> Windows driver work then? Is this some sort of premature hardware >> failure that occurs (after which point it is irreversible)? >> >> > conexant cx25843 - xceive xc5000 failure (as what I've heard conexant > laid off people in that area years ago while xceive (see their driver > changelog if you have access to it) tried to fix it with their > firmware but didn't succeed), it also happens with windows. Those > screenshots are taken from a videoclip > it was of course a big problem for business customers (almost all of > them happily switched away from it) > This is the same retail hardware as everyone else uses out there. XS > FM is not being sold anymore. > I only know one company in Ireland still sticking with it, also in > terms of videoquality I'd avoid that combination. > > Markus > > >> Thanks for taking the time to point this out though, since I could >> totally imagine banging my head against the wall for quite a while >> once I saw this. >> >> Devin >> >> -- >> Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs >> http://www.kernellabs.com >> >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Hi Markus, thanks for the info, i didn't know of this hardware problem, i have this usb stick and at the moment all works normally, now i know when it will be time to replace it :)