Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10

Bill Davidsen
2005-03-01T20:47:27Z

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, James Bruce wrote:

> Sorry, I wasn't clear in the previous email; I did try the card= option
> anyway. I wrote a looping script and tested first 70 card= options, and
> none worked properly for streaming capture. Some did show different
> behavior though. I might try the remaining 50 later today.
>
> I did notice one strange thing though; the card= option is only applied
> to the first bttv card. All remaining cards in the system are still
> autodetected (which ends up assuming card=0 in my case). Not sure if
> this is the intended behavior or not, since someone really could run two
> different bttv cards in the same system.

Just for grins, did you try pulling one of the cards? I have to guess that
having multiple cards is a low occurence configuration, and that you *may*
be following some less traveled path here.

At least now that you know how to set the type for the cards separately
you can test two configurations at a time.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.