On 15/10/2009, H. Langos <henrik-dvb@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:07:00PM +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote: > > Hi, what is the procedure to request drivers for specific new, perhaps > > unknown supported cards? > > > The "procedure" is to hit google with something > like "linux <vendor> <model>" and see what you find. :-) > I meant to say: Where do I ask for a new driver to be written for an unsupported card. Or Perhaps the card is already supported and I just couldn't see it from a singular view. (linuxtv.org, mailing list, Google) > Especially links to mailing list archives like linux-media and linux-dvb > are worth a read. > > I joined linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx recently and I was informed that the mailing list is deprecated and I should join this mailing list instead. (you will see my first mail on their list too) > > > Perhaps I shouldn't waste time if I could find a dual/twin tuner card for > > dvb-s or dvb-s2. Are there any recommended twin-tuner pci-e cards that is > > support and can actually be bought by the average consumer? > > > Did you risk a look at any of those? > > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCI_Cards > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCIe_Cards > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCI_Cards > http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCIe_Cards > I did visit those, and I couldn't find any sellers of the twin tuner cards on http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCIe_Cards :( They would be perfect. Exept I can't find where to buy these. Perhaps they are re-branded and somebody here knows this already? This site http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCI_Cards does not list the Compro S300 neither the KWorld dvb-s 100. I just happened to grep -i kworld /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/dvb/*/* and found KWorld to be somewhat supported. Great so I know that one. How to approach Compro S300? The problem is this: Either I setup my old penium 3 machine with 5 pci slots (which I try to avoid) or buy a new machine with only 2 pci slots and 2 pci-e 1x slots. The options becomes limited on new machines if you want 4 or more tuners in the same machine. So I need some advice if it is feasible to run 5 dvb-s single tuner cards in a pentium3 or 5 tuners (2 twin tuner cards and single card) on an atom based machine? > I suspect they might contain some usable informaion. You should however > take into account that most developers don't care to update a bazillion > different places after they added support for a particular devices. So > in most cases there will be a brief announcment on the developers > mailinglist and the code is the documentation. > I recently joined this mailing list and will be a lookout for anything related to twin tuner cards sent by developers. Or if somebody knows just reply to this thread. Thanks for the help. > cheers > -henrik > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
