How is the tuner controlled? Is it a V4L insterface?

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 12:59:38 -0400 (EDT), Vladimir Dergachev
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> Jon, this is a common misconception - GATOS km module *does* provide a v4l
> interface.
> 
> What is different is that the device configuration (like setting the tuner
> or encoding) is done by Xserver.
> 
> All km does is check whether the card can supply a v4l stream and, if so,
> it provides it. This is little different from a webcam driver, especially
> if a webcam has its own on/off switch.
> 
> The misconception arises from the fact that many v4l programs were only
> made to work with bt848 cards - they would *not* work with webcams any
> more than they would work with km.
> 
>                                best
> 
>                                  Vladimir Dergachev
> 
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