Hi everybody, I didn't get much response when I asked for testers, but I will try again... (they say hope is a virtue!) bttv2 (a version of bttv modified provide a v4l2 interface) is currently pretty much alpha, but it works well for me. At the moment only preview mode is supported, but capture support is comming along fast. What I really need is a few people with all those cool i2c goodies to give it a bash, and see if lirc, stereo, volume, bass, treble, etc. all work (they should because I just wrap the old bttv stuff up in v4l2, but I don't have such a card, so I can't test it). OK why a v4l2 driver? The main reason I use v4l2 is for video capture. It has proper multi-buffering, and timestamping, which are absolutely essential for good capturing. Why this v4l2 driver? My last attempt (bttv-v4l2) worked well, but was based on the v4l2 reference driver, and thus completely differnt from bttv. This version is based on bttv, and thus supports all the fancy extras (I hope) that bttv does. Also, the bttv driver (and to a lesser extent bttv-v4l2) have a number of possible race conditions, which result in occasional system lockups. This driver is designed as a clocked synchronous state machine, which I hope will prevent all existing lockups. (OK, if I must be honest, one of the main resons is that I spent a lot of time on this, and don't want it to have been a waste ;->) So if you feel like lending a helping hand to this effort, please go to http://www.ee.up.ac.za/~justin/bttv2, have a look at "INSTALL", and give it a try. It can co-exist fairly well with bttv, so swapping between the two is no problem at all. Thank you, -justin -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
