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(meteorobs) Meteor I video capture problems!
A computer friend of mine, Martin Dollenkamp has been trying to get a
Matrox Meteor I video capture card to work on a PII 400 computer that I
picked up on eBay. It would not capture a video signal into MetRec or
Linux/IRAF which we would also like to use. Martin did some further
checking and discovered the problem noted below. I'm posting this so others
are aware of this. Anyone know of an inexpensive card that will work with
the 440bx chipset so we can at least import video clips into IRAF?
Ed Majden
EMO Courtenay, B.C.
> Just reading the readme for the Meteor linux driver and it says the
meteor/ppb
> does not work with the 440bx chipset, which is what your computer
has....here
> is an excerpt...
>
> "his is a HARDWARE issue. What I am about to say here holds true for DOS,
> Windows/95/98/NT, as well as for Linux (and BSD, etc.) Unfortunately,
there
> have been exceptions reported to almost all of the combinations outlined,
but
> basically:
>
> 486 PCI implementations Forget it, won't work.
>
> "Orion" chipset. Forget it, won't work.
>
> Pentium 430** chipsets (Triton Series) Meteor (non-PPB)
>
> PPro/P-II 440FX Meteor/PPB
>
> 440LX Problematic,
> Some require Meteor/PPB,
> some require Meteor,
> some work with both,
> some work with neither.
>
> 440EX Meteor (non-PPB)
>
> 440BX Meteor (non-PPB)
>
> Non-Intel Pentium chipsets: YMMV. I have seen positive
> success reports with SiS
> chipsets."
>
> Martin
>
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