On 15/10/2009, H. Langos henrik-...@prak.org wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:07:00PM +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote:
Hi, what is the procedure to request drivers for specific new, perhaps
unknown supported cards?
The procedure is to hit google with something
like linux vendor model and see what you find. :-)
I meant to say: Where do I ask for a new driver to be written for an
unsupported card. Or Perhaps the card is already supported and I just
couldn't see it from a singular view. (linuxtv.org, mailing list,
Google)
Especially links to mailing list archives like linux-media and linux-dvb
are worth a read.
I joined linux-...@linuxtv.org recently and I was informed that the
mailing list is deprecated and I should join this mailing list
instead. (you will see my first mail on their list too)
Perhaps I shouldn't waste time if I could find a dual/twin tuner card for
dvb-s or dvb-s2. Are there any recommended twin-tuner pci-e cards that is
support and can actually be bought by the average consumer?
Did you risk a look at any of those?
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCI_Cards
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCIe_Cards
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCI_Cards
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCIe_Cards
I did visit those, and I couldn't find any sellers of the twin tuner
cards on http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCIe_Cards :(
They would be perfect. Exept I can't find where to buy these. Perhaps
they are re-branded and somebody here knows this already?
This site http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCI_Cards does
not list the Compro S300 neither the KWorld dvb-s 100. I just happened
to grep -i kworld /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/dvb/*/* and found
KWorld to be somewhat supported. Great so I know that one. How to
approach Compro S300?
The problem is this: Either I setup my old penium 3 machine with 5 pci
slots (which I try to avoid) or buy a new machine with only 2 pci
slots and 2 pci-e 1x slots. The options becomes limited on new
machines if you want 4 or more tuners in the same machine. So I need
some advice if it is feasible to run 5 dvb-s single tuner cards in a
pentium3 or 5 tuners (2 twin tuner cards and single card) on an atom
based machine?
I suspect they might contain some usable informaion. You should however
take into account that most developers don't care to update a bazillion
different places after they added support for a particular devices. So
in most cases there will be a brief announcment on the developers
mailinglist and the code is the documentation.
I recently joined this mailing list and will be a lookout for anything
related to twin tuner cards sent by developers. Or if somebody knows
just reply to this thread.
Thanks for the help.
cheers
-henrik
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