linux1394-user

success with Pinnacle

[Ken W. <ha...@he...>]

I installed the Pinnacle Studio DV tonight and applied the kernel
patch and rebuilt.  Kernel built no problem, rebooted, loaded the
three modules and got no complaints.  I take it this means that Linux
liked it?  I don't have any software yet, so I didn't even plug in the
camera.  It would be nice on the site to actually have a list of cards
known to work.  Or did I miss it?

Honestly, I am not sure if I will stay with this.  As far as Linux has
come along (I started when 1.2.13 was current), X still has a LONG way
to go.  I have some really annoying problems that honestly I don't
have the time to figure out anymore.  Find this how-to, that faq,
consult this newsgroup and that mailing list since it's not in the
how-to or faq, etc.  Unless I can figure these things out, which I
would love to since I miss running Linux at home, I might have to just
end up installing Win2k over my NT partition since 2k supports 1394.
Jamie Zawinski really has some valid points, though he is a bit
disgruntled. :)  Anyone have an extra SGI Workstation they want to get
rid of? ;-)  Also, that offer of free Solaris 8 x86 from Sun is
sounding really tempting.  Sorry for the rant, I just hate
anti-climactic situations, which getting X running again has
definitely been.


-Ken

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Re: success with Pinnacle

[Mark <to...@to...>]

I hear you about X, but i don't think that it is that bad.  I currently
cannot get X to work, due to them changing my video card driver in 4.0.1,
but I would never go back to Windows.  I too have had many problems
getting things working (especially 1394), but I would never sacrafice the
configurability of linux for the self-righteousness of windows.  All said
and done, Linux would seem to be a much better editing platform, but it
all comes down to personal preference.  I'm glad to hear that linux liked
your 1394 card.  If everything insmodded right, it should be working, but
don;t quote me on that.

To my point: 

I was just curious if anyone had any good ideas on how to install a bios
patch that is in the form of a win9x executable? I will not install
windows on this computer, it is my server, and windows has a nasty habit
of overwriting partitions/boot records, and i dont want to deal with that
right now.  Also, X isnt working.  I know its a long shot, but maybe
someone has had to do that before?

mark
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Re: success with Pinnacle

[Ken W. <ha...@he...>]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000, Mark wrote:
> I hear you about X, but i don't think that it is that bad.  I currently
> cannot get X to work, due to them changing my video card driver in 4.0.1,
> but I would never go back to Windows.  I too have had many problems
> getting things working (especially 1394), but I would never sacrafice the
> configurability of linux for the self-righteousness of windows.  All said
> and done, Linux would seem to be a much better editing platform, but it
> all comes down to personal preference.  I'm glad to hear that linux liked
> your 1394 card.  If everything insmodded right, it should be working, but
> don;t quote me on that.

Don't take this personally, but though I think Win9x are total pieces
of shit, I have used NT for years, and besides being rock solid
(seriously), I have configured and customized the shit out of it.  I
think most people who say that you can't just never gave it a chance.
Granted unix is much moreso, and I am not saying to use MS products,
but NT really is good.  Plus you can use Internet Explorer.  I hate
Netscape.  Now if I could only actually get a Control key to fit on
the Caps Lock key space since I remapped it in NT.

> I was just curious if anyone had any good ideas on how to install a bios
> patch that is in the form of a win9x executable? I will not install
> windows on this computer, it is my server, and windows has a nasty habit
> of overwriting partitions/boot records, and i dont want to deal with that
> right now.  Also, X isnt working.  I know its a long shot, but maybe
> someone has had to do that before?

How big is the bios flash?  It should be a DOS exe, not Windows. If it
can fit on a floppy, just find someone who has a Windows 9X machine,
and at the command prompt type: 'format /s a:'.  That will make a boot
floppy which can execute the flash file.  If it can't fit on the
floppy, do you have a Zip drive or something that you can put it on?



-Ken

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Re: success with Pinnacle

[Mark <to...@to...>]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Ken Weingold wrote:


> 
> Don't take this personally, but though I think Win9x are total pieces
> 
Not at all, everyone has thier preferences.

> can fit on a floppy, just find someone who has a Windows 9X machine,
> and at the command prompt type: 'format /s a:'.  That will make a boot
> floppy which can execute the flash file.  If it can't fit on the
> floppy, do you have a Zip drive or something that you can put it on?

No, its really a 9x executable.  It is this apparantly so you can use a
radio button to select which patches to install.  I don't know why they
just didnt put the patches in different DOS files, that maybe would make
life too simple.

mark
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