LifeView LV3H still brick - some patches

[Adam Pribyl <pribyl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's more than a year I was triing to help with this hybrid PCI card to 
get it working 
(http://lists-archives.org/video4linux/21688-cx88-xc3028-tests-are-required-was-when-xc3028-xc2028-will-be-supported.html).
We've got stuck at firmware extraction, which was somehow troublesome, but 
it was probably not the main problem.

The difference to date is that card is identified under linux as Geniatech 
X8000-MT DVBT which is perfectly fine, as this is OEM Geniatech, but the 
card is still "dead" with all those "Incorrect readback of firmware 
version."

Some time ago lifeview itself posted on their pages a package 
they claim is a linux driver for "Fedora Core 6 only".
http://www.notonlytv.net/download/driver/lv3hlv3afedora.rar
Acctually it is a modified snapshot of experimental v4l mercurial repo 
from 7. Apr 2007.

What I did is I compared this package with repo from 7.4.2007 and there 
seem to be - at least for my unexperienced eyes - some useful things done. 
See attached diff.

My question is - did someone already took a look at it? Make those changes 
sense? Or.. are they already incorporated upstream? Are they completely 
outdated/useless now?

Thanks for anybody spending a minute looking at it.


Adam Pribyl

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