[slug-chat] Free Beer for Win98/Digital Cam Problem

[Terry Collins <terryc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, if you solve this problem, I'll buy you a slab. If you make a
useful contribution, then I''l buy you a beer. Flippant remarks >
/dev/null. I figure a few of us have to exploit Win98 for bread, and
linux users are most intelligent.


Basically, customer has Pinnaclesys DVStudio Plus (video editing) on
Win98. This involves a firewire card and digital camera. As is typical
with Win98, the software works, by itself, but has problems with other
stuff.

Two major problems.
Before it can capture to the hard disk, it tests it and requires >4K/sec
transfer. The tests come back with ranges from 357bytes/sec to 19K/sec.
Any ideas on this one. It is a new Fujitsu 30GB IDE DMA standard speed.
It is on the secondary controller by itself.

There is definitely something doing something in the background when the
test is being run as sounds happen when testing. Any ideas on tracking
this rogue down? And what is the Ein95/98 equivalent of Checkit?


Second problem is sound. It takes it sound to and from the sound card,
and basically it has lost the sound card. When it captures, you can
display the tape on the screen and listen in, but this has disappeared.

Soundcard is a Creative Vibra 128 (PCI). Side question, what controls
the legacy card settings in autoexec.bat. It keeps putting the interrupt
to 7, which conflicts with parrallel port.

The motherboard is an Asus P5???. 

Basically, clean install, and the software worked. Started adding other
software, like HP scanner and CD writer and problems started. Pinnacle
were real helpful and said their software has problems differentiating
between a parallel port scanner and the firewire camera and these should
really be on seperate systems.



Personally, if I knew of good linux video editing software, I would have
installed it for them and told them to forget win98 right from go (they
are computer newbies - I sold them the system 8 months ago).


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