On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:35 AM, pigeonskiller@xxxxxxxxx <pigeonskiller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Pinnacle PCTV Dual DVB-T Pro PCI 2000i (http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB- > T_PCI_Cards#Pinnacle) was introduced in 2006 and after 5 years it is still > unsupported in linux! > Unbelievable! I'm not sure why you find it so unbelievable. This is a project largely composed of volunteers who are working on products in their own time. If it still isn't supported, then it means that no developer owns a board and cares enough to spend a couple dozen hours to make it work. > Yet its chips Zarlink ZL10353 (http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index. > php/Zarlink_ZL10353) and Microtune MT2060 (http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index. > php/Microtune_MT2060) are supported (http://www.linuxtv. > org/downloads/drivers/linux-media-LATEST.tar.bz2)! > So, what is missing? A developer who cares enough to do the work for free, or a corporate entity willing to pay fair market prices to pay to have it supported? > Probably this is the reason why Linux is not so widespread: LACK OF DRIVERS! > And this is the reason why a lot of users cannot migrate to Linux and are > forced to use that stupid O.S. called Win****! > If anyone wants to have a look at Windows' drivers and is able to develop > drivers (I'm not), here are the drivers: > ftp://ftp.pctvsystems.com/TV/driver/PCTV%202000i/PCTV%20250i%202000i.zip There are very few developers actively contributing to LinuxTV. With limited developer resources, they have to make decisions about what they are going to work on. if those decisions aren't aligned with what *you* want them working on, then your only option really is to learn to become a developer and add the support yourself. You just have to look at motivation: if a developer doesn't benefit personally from having the card working, doesn't think it's fun to make it work, and isn't being paid, then why invest ten or twenty hours of his/her valuable time? Welcome to a community of volunteers. We'll be happy to refund 100% of the money that you've paid to seeing this device work under Linux. :-) Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
