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
>
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Argh, typos.  That's what I get for typing on the phone at basketball practice.

Toshiba *couldn't* release any info.

Regards,
Andy

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