Am Donnerstag, den 04.03.2010, 08:19 +0000 schrieb Per Lundberg: > Hi! > > I read the old thread about this card, at > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg12753.html. I've also > tried downloading the vendor-provided drivers from > http://www.buydvb.net/download2/TBS6980/tbs6980linuxdriver2.6.32.rar > > As someone has already indicated, it seems like TBS (TurboSight) have made their > own fork of v4l where the drivers for this card is included. I've also > understood that the card works fine, which is nice (I down own it yet but am > considering getting one). > > Has anyone done any attempt at contacting TBS to see if they can release their > changes under the GPLv2? Ideally, they would provide a patch themselves, but it > should be fairly simple to diff the linux/ trees from their provided > linux-s2api-tbs6980.tar.bz2 file with the stock Linux 2.6.32 code... in fact, it > could be that their patch is so trivial that we could just include it in the > stock Linux kernel without asking them for license clarifications... but > obviously, if we can get a green sign from them, it would be even better. > -- > Best regards, > Per Lundberg > It is always the other way round. In the end they need a green sign from us. Cheers, Hermann BTW, the TBS dual seems to be fine on m$, but there are some mysterious lockups without any trace, if used in conjunction with some prior S2/HDTV cards. I can't tell yet, if that it is evenly distributed over amd/ati and nvidia stuff or whatever on win7 ... , but people do spend lifetime in vain on it. -- 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
