Devin Heitmueller <dheitmuel...@kernellabs.com> wrote: >On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Andy Walls <awa...@md.metrocast.net> >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 ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
