they work..but ive read many reports of people having problems on those drivers..if your not having problems go ahead an use em :) i tend to prefer using the latest driver(that is considered 'stable')
it also depends on the card your using, and the vga card your using..one of my co workers has a s3 savage 4 with winTV as well and his machine crashes hard whenever a tv app uses bttv, be it kernel drivers or the ones on the bttv page.(but it works in win98 ..) nate On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Hans wrote: hansfo >At 07:33 AM 2/2/00 -0800, aphro wrote: hansfo >>i use a hauppauge wintv/pci hansfo >> hansfo >>and it works great, just make sure to avoid the video4linux drivers in the hansfo >>kernel if possible they are outdated, go to the bttv homepage if your hansfo >>using a bttv-compadible card.(i dont have the link, go to hansfo >>yahoo.aphroland.org and search for bttv) hansfo >> hansfo >>i use kwintv to...used to use xawtv, till i got kwintv to work hansfo > hansfo >I don't understand that remark. I use a Pinnacle/Miro PCTV Pro, a Slink hansfo >system and the 2.2.13 kernel. The build in BTTV driver works fine, gives me hansfo >stereo sound and a clear picture. As if drivers in the kernel are old, hansfo >obsolete and non-functioning. I don't agree, especially since my SB64AWE hansfo >also uses the driver build in the kernel (OSS version) with great success. hansfo >If it works a 100% what is the point of using the latest and greatest? hansfo > hansfo >Things to watch: hansfo > hansfo >1) build everything as module, hansfo >2) once running don't switch from X to console mode while watching a TV hansfo >picture as this will lock the system (for me at least). hansfo > hansfo >Same remark for xawtv. I tried the newer 3.x version and couldn't get it hansfo >running at all. Switched to a 2.x version (2.48 if I recall correctly) and hansfo >had it running within 15 minutes. hansfo > hansfo >Other things to watch: hansfo > hansfo >- radio on the Pinnacle/Miro PCTV Pro is not supported yet from what I can hansfo >tell, hansfo >- neither is ir, but this means some extra exercise for us computer crazy hansfo >hackers. hansfo > hansfo >Last thing: when credits are flying over the screen it appears as a smear. hansfo >I suspect the video card can't keep up with the inlay mode. As I only have hansfo >an old S3DX/Virge with 4 MB video RAM I wonder if upgrading to a faster hansfo >video card will help. Anyone? hansfo > hansfo >Good luck and happy watching. -- Hans hansfo > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 3:02pm up 167 days, 3:13, 1 user, load average: 1.07, 1.06, 1.01