Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:42:48 +0200 | From | Andreas Mohr <> | Subject | Re: pchdtv 3000 cx88 audio very very low level |
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Hi,
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 07:55:01PM -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > Andreas Mohr wrote: > >A distant possibility might be that your card is a very specific rare > >revision > >of that thing and thus doesn't have a proper card type entry for it due to > >almost nobody else having that card. > >In the TV card area (just as in the WLAN card area) there are quite some > >cards > >sold under the *very same* name but wildly (or not so wildly but > >sufficiently) > >differing hardware (those manufacturer b****rds burn in hell please, > >thanks).
> We have recently discovered that the programming for the pcHDTV3000 card > was based on a prototype that used the Thomson DTT7610 tuner, and that > this particular version of the card has never gone into production.
BINGO!
Do I get to keep the $100000 prize now? :-P
One day you wake up and think by yourself "surely hardware manufacturers have screwed us enough by now, it cannot happen again" - only for it to *do* happen again some moments later only...
> The actual version of the card in circulation uses the Thomson DTT7612 > ... You do not need a patch to correct this on your machine, at least > not for analog NTSC mode. Just load your driver as follows: > > modprobe cx88xx tuner=60 (it will use tuner 52 by default) > modprobe cx8800 > > Tuner #52 is the previous tuner defined for this card, DTT7610, and > tuner #60 is configured for Thomson DTT 7611 7611A 7612 7613 7613A 7614 > 7615 7615A > > The configuration for this card has been fixed in the v4l-dvb mercurial > tree as of this morning. To update your v4l/dvb modules (so long as you > are running kernel 2.6.12 or later) follow the directions here:
Does that mean that detection for this card is now fully automatic and correct? I'm asking since this is what we should really try to achieve: 99% of people are John Does, and 97% of those would assume Linux support for this card to be "nonexistent"/"broken" ("thiz Leenux SUCKERZ!"), and a measly remaining 3% would know how to configure this stuff manually properly.
Andreas Mohr (that's the guy that has yet another mis-detected "close but entirely different" TV card sitting and waiting for its bttv fix soon) - 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/
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