Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 May 1997 13:03:40 -0400 | From | tzeruch@ceddec ... | Subject | Re: Anybody want a device driver? |
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What is needed is a central repository (other than /usr/src/linux) for all the neat drivers and patches out there.
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Something I have been looking for is video capture and/or TV Tuner > > capability in the U.S. and would buy whatever board/system supported these > > under Linux, either in X, SVGA, or simply standalone (e.g. cat /dev/video > > >movie.avi). > > Several BT848 based TV tuners have support under Linux in the BT848 driver. > There is also a Matrox meteor driver.
The BT848 has not been tested on all cards (another project awaits me...), and I think the meteor needs a matrox video card, and XFree only recently supported that.
> > If there is some specific hardware, it would be the Nogatech PCMCIA > > adapters (they have both tuner and video variants) so I could use them > > with my laptop. > > That would so cool on a PC110 ...
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