LifeView LV3H still brick - some patches

[Adam Pribyl]

It's more than a year I was triing to help with this hybrid PCI card to get it working (http://lists-archives.org/video4linux/21688-cx88-xc3028-tests-are-required-was-when-xc3028-xc2028-will-be-supported.html). We've got stuck at firmware extraction, which was somehow troublesome, but it was probably not the main problem.

http://www.notonlytv.net/download/driver/lv3hlv3afedora.rar






Thanks for anybody spending a minute looking at it.


Adam Pribyl

The difference to date is that card is identified under linux as Geniatech X8000-MT DVBT which is perfectly fine, as this is OEM Geniatech, but the card is still "dead" with all those "Incorrect readback of firmware version." Some time ago lifeview itself posted on their pages a package they claim is a linux driver for "Fedora Core 6 only". Acctually it is a modified snapshot of experimental v4l mercurial repo from 7. Apr 2007. What I did is I compared this package with repo from 7.4.2007 and there seem to be - at least for my unexperienced eyes - some useful things done. See attached diff. My question is - did someone already took a look at it? Make those changes sense? Or.. are they already incorporated upstream? Are they completely outdated/useless now?

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