Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 12:30:32 -0500 (CDT) | From | Takashi Oe <> | Subject | WinTV problem (Was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS |
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, mberglund wrote:
> Recently I purchased a PPC 7200. It is a beat up old mac that I could pick > up cheap. I have used intels since I was a boy (SysV3.3 on 386!) and saw > some characteristics of the mac that were lacking in the intel boxes. > > Finally, I tried to use the box to do some video grabbing only to find > that the 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 kernel all failed. I Attempted to read the > code, and use kdb, only it doesn't appear to work on the mac very > well. And I don't have a mac serial to 9/25-pin adapter. So I have to go > to Orlando to get one. This is a two hour drive for me, and not worth my > time, thus gdb is out of the question. I have sent some questions out to > that community and they have been unresponsive on this one (I guess no one > uses the happauge wintv on those boxes).
I remember reading a problem report in linuxppc-user mailing list. If that was you, I'd say you are asking a wrong list. Only very few PPC kernel developers read messages from that list as far as I know. I'd think linuxppc-dev for PPC specific problem and video4linux mailing list for wintv specific problem would have been more appropriate.
Anyhow, since your card probably lacks Mac-compatible bios, make sure that PCI memory and/or io accesses are enabled for your card.
For pmac/chrp(/prep?) variant of PPC platform, a (very localized) low-level kernel debugger called xmon is included with the source tree. So, if you absolutely need one, it's there.
Takashi Oe
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