Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:41:33 +0100 From: "Avi Cohen Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Hi, I got the card running with 98SE, W2K and XP. But only with XP I got it stable enough. And of course I got the card running with Mandrake 9.2 with a modified kernel 2.24.something, a margi linux driver I found and updated and the x program I wrote to playback the DVD's with linux plus changing the Neomagic Xserver (and the sound card driver) after a lot of and really a lot of reverse engineering the windows drivers. (And the end I called Margi and they gave me the source code of the Margi WDM driver...) Avi. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 21 December, 2006 20:27 > To: Libretto > Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! > > Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:24:20 +0000 > From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! > > >From: "Michael Heathcote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading > many posts > >over the years with people not been able to get the card to > work in the > >100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! > > Libretto list info: > List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi > List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > To unsubscribe: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16212.html > > Wow.... I'm bown away here on the dialogue about getting the > Margi DVD-to-Go card to work. Michael Heathcote (quoted above > and below) indicated that he got his up and running in Win95 > with only the small hitch of having to replace the driver > Win95 loaded with the proper one that came with the card! > > Seems that was the OS the margi card was tweaked for. And > I'd guess Win95 was probably the lease resource hungry of the > beasts that followed. > > From what Avi has been talking about, I'm not sure if he's > running Win98 or Win2000 with the card. He spoke about > replacing an existing Win98 driver with the same from > Win2000... and I assumed that meant his Margi card was > working in Win98. > > But from Avi's dialogues with Phillip, it sounds like he's > got the card working in Win2000, or both Win2000 >and< Win98. > > So I'm extremely tempted at this point to dig my card out of > storeage, set up Win95 on my 100's 20GB HDD, and do some > testing myself here. Video encoded to MPEG-2 files would > look a lot sharper than the ones I've been re-encoding with > MPEG1 compression with Tsunami. > > Matt > > > >From: "Michael Heathcote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Libretto <[email protected]> > >To: Libretto <[email protected]> > >Subject: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! > >Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:38:35 -0800 > > > >Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:16:42 -0000 > >From: "Michael Heathcote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Margi DVD-to-Go card works! > > > >I've been a member of this list for over 6 years or more, but I have > >not used my 50CT for quite a while since buying a Portege > 3490CT. The > >main problem of the 50CT been lack of 32 bit cardbus & USB > with modern > >peripherals. > >While surfing on ebay last week I noticed a 100CT going for a good > >price with only a few minutes left, an impulse bid and I won! > >For only 87 pounds I now have a 100CT, std & extended batteries, > >standard dock, enhanced dock, power supply & floppy. Well pleased! > >Unmodified standard clock speed, original HDD but > unfortuately only the > >on board 32MB RAM...you can't have it all I guess!!! > >Now a few years ago I bought a Margi DVD-to-Go card with > dongle for my > >Portege, but at the time I did not realise the Portege was not Zoom > >Video supported, so the card has not been used. > >Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading > many posts > >over the years with people not been able to get the card to > work in the > >100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! > >Presently the 100CT is running windows 95 with only 32MB Ram > running at > >166MHz. What I did notice was that windows automatically loaded the > >incorrect driver for the card when first inserted and did > not initially > >work. Updating the driver for the correct one from Margi solved the > >problem. > >Full screen seemless DVD playback & audio playing a DVD from > my 16 bit > >PCMCIA 4x Argosy external DVD ROM drive. Amazing! > >Now that I know it works I am going to change the HDD for something > >larger and load Windows 98SE for the USB support. Hope the Margi > >DVD-to-Go card works okay under Windows 98SE! > > > >Now a quick question. Does it matter whether I use 100CT or 110CT > >drives for my 100CT? There appears to be more drivers > available for the > >110CT on the Toshiba website for 98SE. > > > >Thanks, > >Mike. > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get FREE Web site and company branded e-mail from Microsoft > Office Live > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/ > > >
