Re: tlug: Nvidia & bttv

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 1 May 2000, Alberto Tomita wrote:

> http://slashdot.org/features/00/05/01/0047219.shtml
> 
> [...]
> "Ralph Metzler is just another one of those 'thousands of developers' you hear
> about developing software for Linux. Ralph was checking out the sources for 
> the 
> Linux 2.3 kernel, and he noticed that a chunk of memory conversion routines 
> were copied line for line out of his bttv.c video driver source into Nvidia's 
> code. "
> [...]
> 
> Not "just another one". Ralph is Marcus' brother, who demonstrated an early
> version of his bttv driver a couple of years ago in a TLUG meeting!

I was there.  It worked nicely, as I recall.  i still haven't tried
getting it to work on my Happauge WinTV yet, though.. mostly because that
machine is now exclusively Windows, so I can watch TV on it while I code
in Linux on the Athlon :)

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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