On Thursday 06 October 2005 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Anyone able to confirm if the Dvico Fusion HDTV card drivers are now
> > merged into recent 2.6 kernels? ie. no need to grab the files and compile
> > into a kernel.
>
> I don't think they are. I know that the linuxtv.org
> <http://linuxtv.org>source has merged in to the recent kernel patches.
>
> About to embark on playing around with one and all the howtos I have found
>
> > are out dated, so was wanting to confirm if the process about the driver
> > can be skipped.
>
> DVICO for me doesn't work for twinhan cards. So becareful that you are not
> trying to use wrong drivers. if your card is Twinhan then you should do is
> recompile with dvb-t and saa7xxxx also btxxx, and bttv-dsp. I think.
>
> I was thinking of trying to use a recent version of Kubuntu just for the
>
> > sake of it, as I want to confirm if Mythtv is remotely usefull to me
> > after all, and if so, should i get some new hardware to run it. etc.
They definitly ARE in the kernel:
Linux tigger 2.6.11-smp #4 SMP Sat Jul 30 11:50:31 WST 2005 i686 i686 i386
GNU/Linux
BUT I have plus, lite and old cards. The old cards did not work. Spelunking
Pascoes stuff showed the old cards uning the SAME tuner as the plus. I edited
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-cards.c
case CX88_BOARD_DVICO_FUSIONHDTV_DVB_T1:
/* GPIO0:0 is hooked to mt352 reset pin */
cx_set(MO_GP0_IO, 0x00000101);
cx_clear(MO_GP0_IO, 0x00000001);
msleep(1);
cx_set(MO_GP0_IO, 0x00000101);
core->pll_addr = 0x61;
core->pll_desc = &dvb_pll_thomson_dtt7579;
//jam core->pll_desc = &dvb_pll_lg_z201;
break;
And everything works. I've not looked at any newer kernels than .11 to see if
it's fixed. Maybe only Oz versions of the old card are in existance.
My experience on a few systems is that the DVICO card will not do HDTV.
P4-3G GT6600 graphics nearly there, but still not OK. SD is fine. (myth 0.15,
0.18)
James
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