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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been playing around with this for a few
weeks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The readme file for the cx88 drivers
states,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>video<BR>
Basically works. Some minor quality glitches. For
now<BR> only capture, overlay support
isn't completed yet.<BR><BR>audio<BR>
Doesn't work. Also the chip specs for the on-chip TV
sound<BR> decoder are next to useless
:-/<BR> Most tuner chips do provide
mono sound, which may or may not<BR>
be useable depending on the board design. With the
Hauppauge<BR> cards it works, so there
is at least mono sound. Not
nice,<BR> but better than
nothing.<BR><BR>vbi<BR> not
implemented yet (but I don't expect problems here,
just<BR> found no time for that
yet).<BR><BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The cx88-cards.c doesn't have the tuner specified
(I believe the TV Wonder Pro uses a Philips 1236 MK3)</FONT><FONT face=Arial
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[CX88_BOARD_ATI_WONDER_PRO] =
{<BR>
.name = "ATI TV
Wonder
Pro",<BR>
.tuner_type =
UNSET,<BR>
.input =
{{<BR>
.type =
CX88_VMUX_TELEVISION,<BR>
.vmux =
0,<BR>
}},<BR> },<BR><BR></FONT><FONT
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial
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