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Skriven 2009-07-22 17:52:06 av James Bradley (1:342/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Maurice Kinal
Ärende: On t/thin ice o/a new da
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on 06-25-09 19:42: Maurice Kinal to James Bradley re: slip sliding away

 > Now, with a click-and-go system...

 MK> I would call that a camera with absolutely no cabling[...]
 MK> the other day that Kodak was dropping production of it's
 MK> most popular consumer based film. No looking back now.

35mm? Polaroid stock has been dropped for some time. 

 > complete rewire is sorely overdue, so the chore will have to wait

 MK> Same situation here albiet for different reason(s) ... I think.

Likely, for a *lot* of different reasons. <L> 

 > RE: Matrox G400 "got the second head to work"

 MK> If you get adventerous again maybe you could
 MK> persuade me to care about it more ... just for fun.

"Fun" Oh... Is that what it's called. 

It looks like I still load the works, and then some:
____________________________________
matroxfb: Matrox G400 (AGP) detected
PInS memtype = 0
matroxfb: MTRR's turned on
matroxfb: 640x480x8bpp (virtual: 640x26214)
matroxfb: framebuffer at 0xF6000000, mapped to 0xe0a80000, size 33554432
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: MATROX frame buffer device
matroxfb_crtc2: secondary head of fb0 was registered as fb1
vesafb: cannot reserve video memory at 0xf6000000
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf6000000, mapped to 0xe2b00000, using 3072k, total
32768k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:7d60
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c7df2, set palette = c00c7e5e
vesafb: pmi: ports = 3de 3df
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb2: VESA VGA frame buffer device
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
fb3: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
matroxfb: Matrox G400 (AGP) detected
PInS memtype = 0
matroxfb: MTRR's turned on
matroxfb: 640x480x8bpp (virtual: 640x26214)
matroxfb: framebuffer at 0xF6000000, mapped to 0xe0a80000, size 33554432
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
fb0: MATROX frame buffer device
matroxfb_crtc2: secondary head of fb0 was registered as fb1
vesafb: cannot reserve video memory at 0xf6000000
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf6000000, mapped to 0xe2b00000, using 3072k, total
32768k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:7d60
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c7df2, set palette = c00c7e5e
vesafb: pmi: ports = 3de 3df
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb2: VESA VGA frame buffer device
vga16fb: initializing
vga16fb: mapped to 0xc00a0000
fb3: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The last I toyed with it, I was trying to decrease the screen font, but I
suspect I need some of the other cards modules for a higher resolution? But
first, I'm going to determine which machines are going to fall off the bench. I
might end up with no AGP slots left to cram the pig into. However that ball
bounces, I doubt I should end up with *three* fbs?


 > Only v4ldriver or v4lphilips found here.

 MK> No composite(s)?  That will make it slightly more challenging.  Paul

Ta hell if I know. <L> I think I mentioned - the BBS has been down for a month
- my first HW troubleshoot is to strip out the Brooktree device in a
simplification effort, to working on the Matrox. That should take the Philips
tuner out of the equation. <Sarcasticlly>

 MK> myself as I've always had audio input issues with capture
 MK> cards and in the past used the line in on a soundcard

I've found the BT cards' audio all need to go externally into the sound cards'
line in, or at least an outboard amp.

 MK> surprised I managed to get the video capture working so
 MK> well on a bt848.  I got the card for nothing years ago,
 MK> ...
 MK> attached camera idea (security type dealie) it should be
 MK> perfect.

... Except, to find the software that compares frames to (hopefully) record
only the nefarious bits, and the weather if it kicks up a fuss. You have many
choices on the evil OS. In GNU, you seem to only have a choice to go without.

 MK> about a guy in Langley-ish picking up the CBC HD channel
 MK> with a simple dipole antenna and a usb TV capture dealie on
 MK> an older laptop.  He didn't give much detail on the laptop
 MK> and I am guessing it was USB2.0 capable.

No, I think all USB tuners need the speed of USB 2. You might get an
approximation of Max Headroom without it at best. (See WC's tease about a
digital-analog off air DIY project.)

 > ...two loose connections on the K/V/M switch were a quick fix,

 MK> You sound more and more like Paul every message.

Is that a good thing, or just a thing? <G>

 > maurice has his priorities straight. <ROTF>

 MK> Yeah right.

Maybe I should have said, "Maurice has his priorities." <G+D>


... James
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