From: Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de>
To: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pchdtv 3000 cx88 audio very very low level
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:42:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060411074248.GA26518@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <443AF055.9030900@m1k.net>
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)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-11 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-07 2:57 pchdtv 3000 cx88 audio very very low level Greg Stark
2006-04-07 9:24 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-04-07 13:06 ` Greg Stark
2006-04-10 13:38 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-04-10 23:55 ` Michael Krufky
2006-04-11 7:42 ` Andreas Mohr [this message]
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