frame grabbers supported by Linux

2003-08-14 Thread Boris Zingerman
Hi I'm looking for medium/high quality frame grabber wich has stable Linux driver. Basically I need to grab images produced by CCD Video camera via S-Video interface. I use now some Bt878 based TV card. It works fine but the quality of images is rather poor. Does someone have good experience with

Video in overlay mode

2003-11-09 Thread Boris Zingerman
Hi Can someone give me some example/link to decent documentation how to program video for Linux in overlay mode ? Thanks in advance Boris. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message

Disk On Key support in Linux

2004-03-01 Thread Boris Zingerman
Hi Which Disk On Key devices are well supported in Linux ? ( Do they all use the same protocol ?..) Thanks. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command ech

drivers for PCI Express devices

2007-03-06 Thread Boris Zingerman
Hi All, How much writing device drivers for PCI Express device is different from drivers for PCI devices ? I couldn't find much information except linux/Documentation/PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt Any links ? thanks = To unsubscribe, send mail

cable internet service providers

2005-03-08 Thread Boris Zingerman
Hi I would like to know which cable internet service providers in Israel are most Linux friendly, and which cable modems work smoothly with Linux Thanks Boris = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe"

4G RAM and e1000

2005-05-23 Thread Boris Zingerman
Hi We have dual XEON computer with E7520 based board wich supports up to 16G RAM. The OS is RedHat9 with their 2.4.20 kernel. We've installed 4G RAM on it, but regular (not bigmem) kernel sees only 2.5G ( mem=xxxM option to kernel doesn't help ). If we boot with bigmem kernel it sees all 4G but

getting process' pagetable

2005-06-22 Thread Boris Zingerman
Hi Is it possible to print/dump pagetable of a given process ( through /proc filesystem maybe ) ? = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscr

Re: getting process' pagetable

2005-06-26 Thread Boris Zingerman
these entries are exactly what I want to see. ( I'll try to write kernel module that will do it) regards, Boris Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 05:33:48PM +0300, Boris Zingerman wrote: Hi Is it possible to print/dump pagetable of a given process ( through /proc filesy

restricting memory mapping

2005-07-31 Thread Boris Zingerman
Hi list We have some driver that performs zero-copy DMA to userspace allocated buffers. The problem is that the device cannot perform DMA to RAM pages with physical addresses above 4G ( this is heavily memory equipped computer) My question is it somehow possible to restrict memory mapping for sha

sleeping process consumes CPU

2005-09-29 Thread Boris Zingerman
Hi list I'm runnig XP SP2 under vmware-5 on my linux box ( RH9 kernel 2.4.28 ) and I see that vmware-wx constantly uses 15-20% of CPU even when no application is open in XP. But what is more interesting is that top always reports this process (vmware-wx) as sleeping. How sleeping process can cons

Re: sleeping process consumes CPU

2005-09-29 Thread Boris Zingerman
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:37:34AM +0300, Boris Zingerman wrote: Hi list I'm runnig XP SP2 under vmware-5 on my linux box ( RH9 kernel 2.4.28 ) and I see that vmware-wx constantly uses 15-20% of CPU even when no application is open in XP. But what is

Re: sleeping process consumes CPU

2005-09-29 Thread Boris Zingerman
Well on the second thought it is rather understandable why it always seems to be in sleeping state, because when it wakes from poll it immedeatly goes to sleep in another poll call so when something like top gets chance to run it always sees it as sleeping. (the problem with this stupid process is

glibc-2.2.5 breaks VMware

2002-05-12 Thread Boris Zingerman
Hi After upgrading to RH-7.3 vmware on my machine doesn't work anymore. I get message AIO: NOT_IMPLEMENTED F(566):1081 It seems to be related to glibc-2.2.5 which is used by RH7.3 . AOI interface either changed or may be moved to external library (RH7.3 installs libaio-0.3.12-1 which was not pr

ZIP drive 100/250 incompatibility.

2002-09-09 Thread Boris Zingerman
Hi, I have Iomega ZIP drive 100Mb on one computer and ZIP 250Mb on another computer. According to Iomega newer 250 drive should be completely compatible with old 100Mb disketes. The problem is that when I create partition table using ZIP100 drive it is not recognized by ZIP250 and vice versa. Do