On 22 May 2011 04:11, Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Roman Gaufman <hackeron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I figured as much, but what can I do now? > > Your options at this point are: > > 1. ÂFind some developer who cares enough to take a free board just for > the fun of making it work. Any suggestions where? > 2. ÂIf you're a commercial entity, hire somebody to do the work > (Kernel Labs does this sort of work) I have a small company that consists of just me and I'm broke, heh, but I'll check out kernel labs thanks! > 3. ÂLearn enough about driver development to add the support yourself. Any suggestions where/how to start? - are there any guides/tutorials that show how to go from start to finish getting a board to work? > > The reality is that the LinuxTV project is grossly understaffed > already, and if you're a regular user who wants a working product, > your best bet is to just buy something that is already supported. ÂAll > other options require either a considerable investment in money (to > pay someone to do the work), or time (to learn how to do it yourself). Do you have any recommendations for a DVR card that has 8 or 16 audio+video inputs that's already supported by linux available for sale? The problem is I can't find anything that's already supported, so I'm just trying random cards. I bought one with SAA7134 chips that happened to work, but they stopped making it. The problem is I can't find anything supported that's available for sale. It seems quite the opposite, only rare obscure cards that are no longer sold are supported :/ > > Developers who care enough to contribute to the project typically have > no shortage of boards at their disposal, and they tend to focus their > energy on where you get the most bang for the buck. ÂThis tends to > favor products that are more popular, which is why the cx25821 driver > has gotten almost zero attention (since there are almost no actual > products using it other than Conexant reference designs). > >> 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? > > You can create an entry on the LinuxTV wiki with the board details. > Of course no guarantee that anybody will do anything with it (in fact, > the less popular the board, the less likely for this to be the case). This is a board from http://securitycamera2000.com and is one of the few boards that pop up when looking for a DVR card on google and ebay. I will create an entry on the LinuxTV wiki, thanks! > > 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
