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Re: [LUG] Linux Boot disk? Video Capture?

 

On Sunday 11 December 2005 4:44 pm, Julian Hall wrote:
> Tried the Xandros CD with no joy.. says 'Press Shift for boot options'
> but the Rescue option doesn't do what it says on the tin, not in my case
> anyway, inasmuch as it doesn't give me the chance to reinstal LILO which
> is all I need to do for a working system.

You should be able to sort out that problem from any shell - that's all you 
really need. If any of these boots provide a shell, that will use root as 
your hard drive partition so login to the shell, su to root and type:
# lilo

You don't need to 'install' LILO in terms of the package lilo, you simply need 
to *run* lilo to reinstate the master boot record to overwrite the current 
(brain-dead) Windows one with a lilo version that can dual-boot.

Can you get to any kind of shell from these rescue / live / install CD's?

> >Few peripherals are guaranteed to work with GNU/Linux - you are asking for
> > too much in that regard
>
> Fair enough, poor choice of words on my part.  What I *should* have said
> is "any card that LUG members use and know works with Linux" which is a
> completely different animal.  You're absolutely right :)

:-)

> My current card (as you may or may not remember) is a Pinnacle DC10+B...
> the B being for Bendino, the onboard chip which Pinnacle refuse outright
> to allow any developers to have the specs for.

Boo! HISS! Bunch of brain-dead megalomaniacs probably.
:-)

However:
Recording is supported for the Zoran based cards like the Buz (Iomega), DC10 
(MIRO, Pinnacle), Matrox Marvel cards and the LML33 (Linux Media Labs). 
http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/

> As Windows has been a 
> pain for, IMHO, the final time I'm voting with my feet.  I'd like a card
> that caps in full DVD (720*576/25fps PAL) as the Pinnacle does, but
> obviously known to work in Linux.  From Rob's post I think I'm looking
> for something using a Brooktree BT8x8 chipset.  Tuner is not an issue as
> I view through the cable box anyway.  I could Google for it I know, but
> that landed me with the Pinnacle card last time due to viewing a
> misleading website that had not been updated.

:-( Google would have been my recommendation.

With a little tweaking, Google could provide some answers:
Brooktree BT8x8 based tv-tuner cards (such as 
AverMedia TV Phone, LifeView FlyVideo98 and many others). 

Search for Brooktree BT8x8 linux -solaris -pinnacle
and use Advanced Options to set English language.
http://linux.microbsys.com/print.php?sid=44
(which mentions v1.6.1 when the home page:
http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/
refers to v1.8.0)

Looks like pinnacle could be supportable after all so you could drop the 
-pinnacle in the query above.

> I'd prefer the opinion of 
> people I trust, you guys and gals :)

Much appreciated, but we are a relatively small group, we can't cover the 
entire spectrum. ;-)

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Neil Williams
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