Re: VIC and Matrox Meteor

Koji OKAMURA (oka@nanotsu.kobe-u.ac.jp)
Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:17:26 +0900

I hear that the problem occurs with video capturing and sending
simultaneously.

My friend said that Amancio's TV works fine on Pentium Pro.
But Vic and Nv hang the PC.

--
Koji




 From: Bill Gribble <grib@cs.utexas.edu>
 Date: 18 Sep 1997 11:47:09 -0500


> I have tested only single-frame captures, but on my new Intel
> motherboard Pentium Pro system with 2 PPros, the Meteor works just
> fine with Linux.  There may be some subtle incompatibilities I haven't
> hit yet, but the basic interface to the PCI bus and the driver works
> just fine.  This is with the Meteor-PPB board.
> 
> Seems like there's a lot of FUD about the Meteor-PPB and the PPro, but
> not so much in the way of experimental data.  I have two of the cards
> and I'll be porting our real-time vision library to use them in the
> next couple of weeks.  I'll be sure to let the list know how it
> goes... but all my initial tests have shown that there shouldn't be
> any real problems.
> 
> Bill Gribble