On 31 Jan 2001, Gerd Knorr wrote:

> > The card is a video only capture that came with a camera (and has a
> > connector to power that camera next to the video connector).
>
> Sure the box is really dead?  These very cheap cards with just the bt848
[snip]
> some sanity checks on the i2c bus first (options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1).
>
>   Gerd
>

Yup, the box was just waiting for the timeout.  Setting that option allows
booting to continue regularly (i2c reports the device as being "busy"
during bootup).

Adrian


PS.  I think that card has gone bad or the drivers don't support it
correctly, since in both Windows and Linux machines it now gives scrambled
video.





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