On Thursday 20 March 2003 12:45, Bruno Prior wrote: > Steffen Barszus wrote: > > HEAD is in the meantime the stable Branch (DVB) (since weeks). AFAIK the > > dvb drivers are in 1.0 RC and they are a lot improved over the 0.9.4 > > release (what I suspect is that the one that comes with the mandrake > > kernel are 0.9.4, I would say the are 0.8.x but I can't say for sure). > > And I forwarded the 1.0beta or RC announce from linux-dvb to cooker. So > > yes his question comes to late, but I had allready 3 related mails about > > it. But with the current development speed of linuxdvb it is better to > > get the latest from linux-dvb anyway. Just no need to carry the old > > drivers within the kernel. > > That's exactly right. And I asked about this on 31 Dec, so there was > plenty of time to include if wanted. It's not a problem not to include > it, but it is a minor nuisance to include an out-of-date version. Better > to take it out altogether. > > The same goes for the dabusb driver. > > And another thing that is a small annoyance with regard to the dabusb > driver: the driver is included, but devfs does not appear to be > configured to provide the device file(s), so it's pretty useless without > fiddling behind the scenes. And likewise, I could find no applications > for using the drivers for dvb or dabusb in main or contrib, nor could I > find any documentation to explain what was needed. Basically, as you > need to download the source packages to do anything useful, these > drivers in their current state are pretty useless. > > Maybe updating dvb and dabusb can be added to the TODO list for 9.2.
Maybe is the wrong word ;) They definitly should ! I would assume that vdr will become stable (1.2.0) in near future, the drivers too (1.0.0), and vdr is a killer-application. I know quite some people that get linux to run vdr alone. -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
