[H-GEN] Brooktree Drivers

[James McPherson]

Daehenoc writes:
 > Hey ho everybody, I am moving and so will be having a big
 > sell-all-the-crap-that's-kicking-around-the-house sale of computer bits
 > soon, I will let everybody know...
 > 
 > BUT, in the meantime, while I was cleaning up, I found a Brooktree
 > Bt848KPF Video Frame Grabber (just lying around, you know how it is) and I
 > can't get onto the www.brooktree.com site to get the drivers... does
 > anybody know of a place on the web where I can get the drivers for this
 > lovely peice of equipment?
 > 


Brooktree look to have been subsumed by Rockwell Semiconductor:

http://208.229.230.81:80/platforms/infotainment/Bt848/main.html#top_page

There are linux drivers for it - the bttv package from SuSE is what you need:

http://einstein.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk/susehelp/pak_e/paket_bttv.html



cheers,
James C. McPherson
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