If you have RPM drivers for x86_64 FC4, can you send to me? Thanks Jose Alberto El Viernes, 6 de Enero de 2006 13:52, Albert the Mildly Deranged escribi?: > Hello there. I'm new to all this DVB malarky, but I'm interested in > changing that with one of these cards. > > I want to know about compatibility first, though, before I shell out > ?60 [100USD-ish] and find I've wasted my money. I was wondering if > you fine people might help me out (if I help you a bit)? I've been > Googling around for it and there seems to be a lot of speculation > about this board - how many chips does it use, what are they, how > standard is the interface, etc - but little hard fact. AVerMedia > Support tell me that the board uses a chipset which is undocumented, > and has no open-source Linux driver. However, the folks at Aver have > been beavering away on a closed-source Linux driver - closed-source > due to licensing issues with the manufacturer, I'm told. > > The very helpful guy answering my emails sent me what they've got so > far - what seems to be an RPM-based package for FC3 and FC4. I'm on > Gentoo (and I don't have the card) so I can't test it out for myself. > > However, the files inside the RPM are very helpfully named - the > /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/kernel/drivers/media/video/ directory > > looks like this: > > mt352.ko > > saa7134/saa713x.ko > > Now I've just looked inside my kernel configuration (2.6.14-gentoo-r4) > and there's an option to support the mt352 digital tuner. The > Phillips SAA7146 also appears to be supported, but not the 713x > mentioned. Are they one and the same? I don't know. > > I hope you'll consider that I've done enough of my own poking around > to be worthy of your help, but that's about as far as my poking stick > will reach. With any luck this email will spark off a good discussion > about the board, and we'll get some real facts. > > Cheers (and apologies for length), > Tom :) > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
