[mythtv-users] Any success with ATI TV Wonder Pro (no, not All-In-Wonder)

[David Griffiths]

I've been playing around with this for a few weeks.
 
I know about the cx88 drivers at bytesex.org/cx88, and I've tried them
with SuSE 9.1 Pro, RH 9, Slackware 9.1.
 
With Slack, I've tried patching the kernel with the .diff file, I've
tried upgrading the kernel to the 2.4.23rc and building the
tarball-snapshot.
 
My last effort was RH9 with a 2.4.20 kernel (the latest rpm) and the
cx88 RPM files. XAWTV is installed, but it complains that there is no
video device available.
 
The readme file for the cx88 drivers states,
 
video
        Basically works.  Some minor quality glitches.  For now
        only capture, overlay support isn't completed yet.

audio
        Doesn't work.  Also the chip specs for the on-chip TV sound
        decoder are next to useless :-/
        Most tuner chips do provide mono sound, which may or may not
        be useable depending on the board design.  With the Hauppauge
        cards it works, so there is at least mono sound.  Not nice,
        but better than nothing.

vbi
        not implemented yet (but I don't expect problems here, just
        found no time for that yet).



 
The cx88-cards.c doesn't have the tuner specified (I believe the TV
Wonder Pro uses a Philips 1236 MK3)

        [CX88_BOARD_ATI_WONDER_PRO] = {
                .name           = "ATI TV Wonder Pro",
                .tuner_type     = UNSET,
                .input          = {{
                        .type   = CX88_VMUX_TELEVISION,
                        .vmux   = 0,
                }},
        },


Anyway, just wondering if I should bite the bullet and get a Hauppauge
PVR-250, or if someone has some advice. BTW, I noticed that the drivers
over at bytesex.org/snapshot were updated - looks like a monolithic
drive now, which should help to reduce dependencies.
 
David.
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