Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261743AbVCAIpO (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:45:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261767AbVCAIpO (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:45:14 -0500 Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.6]:52367 "EHLO hirsch.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261743AbVCAIpG (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 03:45:06 -0500 X-Envelope-From: kraxel@bytesex.org To: James Bruce Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Potentially dead bttv cards from 2.6.10 References: <422001CD.7020806@andrew.cmu.edu> <20050228134410.GA7499@bytesex> <42232DFC.6090000@andrew.cmu.edu> <87mzto3c78.fsf@bytesex.org> <42240EB3.6040504@andrew.cmu.edu> From: Gerd Knorr Organization: SUSE Labs, Berlin Date: 01 Mar 2005 09:44:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <42240EB3.6040504@andrew.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <87is4b21s5.fsf@bytesex.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 845 Lines: 21 James Bruce writes: > If you could suggest a very well tested kernel for bttv (2.6.9?), What do you expect? With just one single report and not remotely being clear what exactly caused it ... > I've heard that there is some way to dump eeproms; Is there a way to > write them also? Yes, you can. That works only if you can still talk to it though. > If I could copy the eeprom from the unused cards to the (now broken) > pair that might fix things. No. It's not accessable, not just the content scrambled. Gerd -- #define printk(args...) fprintf(stderr, ## args) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/