Ralph Metzler writes: > > I'm also surprised by the uninterest from both Techonotrend and the driver > > developers at Convergence to fix this or even to provide input or hint > > on this issue. > > AFAIR, Technotrend never cared about Linux drivers at all. I > never received any information about their hardware from them. > (This is true for ALL card manufacturers except Siemens.) > So, why are you surprised now?
I am really surprised because http://www.linuxtv.org/developer/dvb.xml said that the TT DVB-C card was *supported* (not "it might work") until I sent the burning tourch mail to the list... > We are also not interested in supporting each and every version of the > DVB cards, especially if we don't even have a sample card and won't > get any kind of help by the manufacturer to program the new chips > which might be on those cards. > Please explain exactly why we should be interested in supporting > such cards? I can't. But don't say you do then... I was hoping to run Linux on my VDR, but that won't seem to happen anytime soon. > > All I can do for now is to add a note on our WWW page that not > all card versions of all vendors work with the driver. > In 4 weeks all this will probably be a moot point anyway and all I > will be able to support then is a version 1.3 DVB-S card. That's a pity for the Linux community. Stefan -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
