[mythtv-users] New HD3000 drivers

[Brandon Beattie]

Okay, so I did get ahead of myself. The new driver will be released in
the next couple days.  

--Brandon

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 09:48:22AM -0700, Brandon Beattie wrote:
> New drivers have been released for the HD-3000 card.  Some cards took
> slightly longer to initialize and the driver tried to communicate before
> it was ready.  The new HD-3000 driver fixes this problem.  If you had
> problems with the card before, it should be fine now.
> 
> In the next week or two there will be yet another driver release that
> will have improved 64 bit and MP support.  The buffer will also be
> doubled and we should see the Buffer Overrun errors pretty much vanish.
> 
> For those who want to follow driver development, I will be setting up a
> site on freedesktop.org once their server comes back online.  I'll post
> the information here along with the maillist to join if you are
> interested in following or helping driver work.  One improvement I'm
> personally looking forward to is right now we send the full 45Mb stream
> over the PCI bus.  When you have 2-3 cards and are saving these streams
> to disk that adds up quickly, and this is partially responsible poorer
> playback on amd based systems.  Another goal will be to get the driver
> accepted into the kernel.  
> 
> --Brandon
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