Thorsten Jordan wrote: > Antti Palosaari wrote: >> Thorsten Jordan wrote: >>> Antti Palosaari wrote: >>>> Thorsten Jordan wrote: > >> Requires same kernel version as current v4l-master (newer than 2.6.18 >> ?). Tree is http://linuxtv.org/hg/~anttip/af9015/ and firmware from >> http://otit.fi/~crope/v4l-dvb/af9015/ . > i tried with kernel 2.6.22.5 and took the newest firmware 4.95 (?) from > the site, placed it in /lib/firmware. > It worked right away, great!!! > No more visible artifacts even with the passive small antenna that came > with the card. You are my hero of the day for sure! Thank you very much > for the help! > And the use count bug seems fixed in your driver too. Congrats! Nice to know :) Not too many reports got... > Do you have an idea when this will be merged upstream to official linux > kernel? Don't know, there is also Manu working with his driver based on Afa's driver. > I guess the firmware is not GPL and thus must be downloaded > manually by every user? Thats normal way how it is done in Linux world. There is few things I can imagine, like; * newer firmware is possible to deliver without need of new kernel * different firmwares used by almost same device, but still needed different firmware for small changes in hw or like that * license > >> I will check if it is easy to implement those missing status >> informations and try to add... > that would be the extra bonus... thumbs up! regards Antti -- http://palosaari.fi/ _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
