[mythtv-users] New HD3000 drivers

[David George]

On 11/23/2004 12:08 PM, Stephen Hocking wrote:

>David inscribed wisdom thusly....
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>>I just got my HD3000 in last night.  I'm working on it now and should be 
>>able to post a patch in a few days (schedule is a little tight right 
>>now).  I may work on making the driver a patch to 2.6.9 with the latest 
>>v4l2 first, until 2.6.10 final comes out.  Still reading code right now.
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>>There have been a lot of changes to the bttv and cx88 drivers since 
>>pcHDTV forked the code for their driver.  It will take a little effort 
>>to merge and find the differences.  This is one of the reasons I prefer 
>>patches instead of standalone.  It is much easier to take advantage of 
>>improvements to the master codebase.
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>Yeah - I have a HD2000 and whenever I try the drivers off the HD-3000-CD-03 
>tarball (which includes the drivers for the HD2000) I get an oops backtrace 
>whenever I attempt to use the /dev/dtv device under the later 
>stock FC2 kernels. This means I'm stuck with my old 2.6.6-HDTV kernel. If you 
>want a tester for the bttv patches, count me in.
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I also have an HD2000 in my system, so I'll need to make sure I fix that 
problem also.  I'll also be tracking any changes pcHDTV makes themselves 
in case they happen to fix it.

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David