[mythtv-users] Current wisdom on PVR-150/250/350/500

Jerry Rubinow jerrymr at gmail.com
Mon Apr 17 15:01:51 UTC 2006


On 4/16/06, Jeff Simpson <jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
> > When Nvidia's hardware is supported by free software, I'll buy this
> myself.
>
> Nvidia IS supported by free software. There is an open-source driver that
> works.
>
> HOWEVER nvidia ALSO releases their own binary driver, out of the
> goodness of their hearts. And it works great and supports ALL the
> features of the card.
>
> I don't see Hauppauge jumping up to release ANY drivers for their
> hardware. They are all about saying "Works in Linux / MythTV", but
> they won't even release register maps for their hardware to
> developers, we've had to reverse engineer. The ivtv driver was written
> by somebody from what I assume was reverse engineering the windows
> driver and reading the specs for the various chips on the card.
>
> Remember that company that had open-source linux drivers, Matrox?
> Neither do I. They just couldn't keep up with the competition.

I'm not sure what your point is here.  Matrox still very much exists,
and they provide binary drivers in what looks like a similar manner as
Nvidia.  Not sure if they have a full source driver of some sort, but
I didn't look that hard.

http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm

-Jerry


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