Hallo

I did remove some mailinglists because I think that it is not important 
for them.

Anyway I'm surprised that someone still seems to has such a card built 
into the computer.

>> More than 15 years have passed since the first working module for a
>> zoran chipset based PCI card existed. Well not included into the
>> Linux kernel at that time. According to my experience, the driver
>> started to make problems when 64 Bit and more than 2GB Ram became
>> popular. In May 2011 there was a patch available that made the cards
>> working in machines with more than 2GB Ram, and AMD&Intel x64
>> architectures. According to my information that patch did not make it
>> into the linux kernel (the Patch was for the Linux 2.6.38 Kernel)
> As far as I know it works fine on machines with a lot of memory, at
> least the last time I tested it it was OK (with a 3.<something> kernel).
For me the card makes just sense to use if you can at least view the 
video. If recording does not work that would be a big disadvantage. If 
playback of videos does not work that would be no big deal for me.

I'm quite sure that recording video with sound does not work. Because of 
the Alsa OSS emulation. That is no fault of the kernel team. Nobody did 
spend time to convert the recording from OSS to Alsa.

>> So people spend time looking at code that does not work (well it
>> compiles and does not cause troubles), and send patches the world
>> will never honor.
> I'll honor them. I still have zoran hardware and it is on my todo list
> of drivers to update to the latest frameworks.
Sounds like a challenge :)

I still have a computer with one PCI slot and 16GB Ram. That means that 
I will spend some time adding again the Buz and DC30 into my computer 
and testing what current works (on my Opensuse 13.1 3.11.10-17-desktop 
#1 SMP PREEMPT ... x86_64 GNU/Linux)

And you help me when I encounter kernel related problems ? I hope you 
accept.

BTW: It will take about 3 weeks till I find time to set up for the test. 
So there is time to consider.

>> I haven't had a question related to a zoran based card's in years. So
>> I'm quite sure there are not much users out there that use a zoran
>> based video cards in a up to date environment.
>>
>> Because of that I would really suggest that somebody removes the whole zoran 
>> driver from the linux kernel.
> It's not blocking new development, so there is no need to remove it.
> Besides, I have zoran hardware, so even if it is blocking new developments
> I should be able to fix it.
The "problem" I have with the current situation that I don't know how 
many people still use the zoran based card's on a regular base. To know 
if You and all the other people spend the time for something that is 
active used. Or you are just taking care of a empty shell.

auf hoffentlich bald,

Berni the Chaos of Woodquarter

Email: shadowl...@utanet.at
www: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gz/bernhard

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