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alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: >> A friend of mine want to setup Linux on his machine, and he has a TV card >> from Phillips installed. The question is now, if anyone has ever written >Try getting board info from Philips. I've not been able to find anyone >who actually had their wetware fitted in philips. TV card drivers ought >to be simple as the boards are clearly just I2C bus interfaces to standard >video/tv chips. Take a look at http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/ for a start on a driver for the Bt848 PCI digitizer and a Philips tuner. --- cut --- README --- cut --- This driver is solely based on a Bt848 manual and Philips data sheets for the various chips of the tuner. (No "NDAed" code, no reverse engineering) --- cut --- README --- cut --- I still would classify it as pre-alpha, but I was able to get a TV picture inside an X-Window and some quite nice videotext stuff from my Hauppauge WinTV/PCI. Maybe this helps... Ciao Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. Henning Schmiedehausen - henning@iconsult.com "Alta la vista, Baby" ICONSULT Tandogan - Schmiedehausen - Egerer GbR Tel.: +49-9131-9047-12 Memelstrasse 38 - D-91052 Erlangen Fax.: +49-9131-9047-77 Spencer: Who thought this Internet up? Helen: A bunch of visionaries who wanted to link together computers all over the planet. Spencer: Why'd they do that? Helen: So they could keep talking when the world was anihilated by nuclear war. -- Helen, sweetheart of the Internet | ||||||||||||
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