I figured as much, but what can I do now? Should I take some high resolution pictures of the board? Any other details I can provide to help developers add support for this board? Is there anyone in particularly I should contact? Anywhere I can post any information I collect on this board? I'm happy to donate this board if someone wants to help add support for it. On 22 May 2011 02:37, Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Just because there is a driver for whatever chipset your board happens > to have, doesn't mean that your board is actually supported. ÂThe > definition of a product is more than just the chips that are on it. > >> # modprobe cx25821 > > You should *never* have to manually modprobe. ÂIf you ran modprobe, > then that means the driver does not know about the PCI ID for your > board. > >> The module looks like to be loaded successfully. > <snip> >> And now I can not see any /dev/video0-7 devices to get input from the card. >> I'l greatly appreciate if someone could tell me about additional actions to >> make this work. > > The /dev/video devices will not be created if the driver did not > associate with the card. ÂBasically what you did is the equivalent of > modprobing any driver in the system regardless of whether or not it > has anything to do with the actual hardware you happen to have. > > Somebody would likely have to do work to modify the driver to support > your board. ÂThis would mean a driver developer who actually cared > enough to do the work would have to have one of the boards, which > doesn't appear to be the case at this point. > > Hope that helps (or at least it makes clear that this board will not > just start to magically work just because you have a card which > contains the chips involved). > > 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
