Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

Gerd Knorr
2005-03-01T08:45:14Z

James Bruce <bruce@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> If you could suggest a very well tested kernel for bttv (2.6.9?),

What do you expect? With just one single report and not remotely
being clear what exactly caused it ...

> I've heard that there is some way to dump eeproms; Is there a way to
> write them also?

Yes, you can. That works only if you can still talk to it though.

> If I could copy the eeprom from the unused cards to the (now broken)
> pair that might fix things.

No. It's not accessable, not just the content scrambled.

Gerd

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