Andy Walls <[email protected]> wrote: >Devin Heitmueller <[email protected]> wrote: > >>On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Andy Walls <[email protected]> >>wrote: >>> Yeah probably. That's an old ivtv legacy strategy that I'm not even >>sure made sense then. >>> >>> Anyway, Toshiba has indicated that they wouldn't/couldn't provide >>information for me to add support for the digital side of their cards. >> The best I can do is add support for the analog side of their cards >>having the end user iteratively experiment. >>> >>> I don't have time for that. A supported USB Analog/DVB-T hybrid >unit >>is probably a better solution for TV on a laptop under linux, than >>toshiba's card. >> >>Yeah, I hear you. The device is pretty obscure, and without a unit to >>debug on (or definitive info from the vendor), then it probably isn't >>worth your time. And if it's an onboard design in a laptop, it >>wouldn't be trivial to yank the card and physically examine it, so you >>would probably be forced to determine stuff like the GPIO config and >>demod/tuner used purely through experimentation. >> >>Devin >> >>-- >>Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs >>http://www.kernellabs.com > >I got the impression for toshiba 3 years ago that there was 3rd party >interests in the unit so they could release info. I also inferred that >it was a plug in (mini pci maybe) card. > >Anyway, I forgot to mention that one can specify card type 6 with the >cx18 module and hope for the best. > >Regards, >Andy > >_______________________________________________ >ivtv-devel mailing list >[email protected] >http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
Argh, typos. That's what I get for typing on the phone at basketball practice. Toshiba *couldn't* release any info. Regards, Andy _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
