The PCTV 340e is one of those unfortunate situations that I (Devin Heitmueller) personally take alot of criticism over. About two years ago I bootstrapped the driver, got it working with the hardware, but then never got around to cleaning up the code enough to get it upstream. This has resulted in the HG tree… Read More
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HVR-1150/1120 IR support
Things continue to be busy here at KernelLabs. This week submitted a patch upstream which results in the IR receiver support starting to work on the HVR-1150 and HVR-1120 boards. This was something that several people had been mentioning to me as an issue over the last nine months. Thanks go out to Fernando Laudares… Read More
HVR-900 R2 and PCTV 330e support upstream
After sitting in a public KernelLabs tree for almost 13 months, I finally got around to merging the Micronas DRX-D driver upstream, so now DVB support for the PCTV 330e and HVR-900 R2 are in the upstream kernel (for 2.6.40). So if you’ve been using the KernelLabs HG tree (which required considerable modification to work… Read More
4th of July: PCTV 80e Support
On this fine Independence Day, the PCTV 80e declares independence from the tyranny of Windows. Ok, apologies to anyone from the U.K. for my quirky American sense of humor. Seriously though, Trident Microsystems finally agreed to allow the DRX-J code to be released under a BSD license. This means that we can finally release a… Read More
Call for testers: HVR-900R2 and PCTV 330e
When suffering from insomnia, some people count sheep. Others watch television. I ported Ralph Metzler’s drx-d driver into the kernel and finally debugged the issues required to get the HVR-900R2 and PCTV 330e digital support working. I know many people have been waiting a long time for this, and I am happy to announce that… Read More
Call for testers: PCTV 74e Support
I finally got a chance to do some testing with the PCTV 74e, using the GPL reference driver that Abilis provided. I’m happy to report that at least our initial testing shows that it works out of the box! Testers are welcome to try the following hg tree: http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/v4l-dvb-as102 To build: hg clone http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/v4l-dvb-as102 cd… Read More
PCTV 74e and More Em28xx Quality Work
I spent the last few days working on some basic quality problems with the KWorld 2800d (an em2860/saa7113 design). It would seem that I uncovered a bug that was introduced almost four years ago which would have resulted in reduced quality for all saa7113 based products. I’m also working on a couple of formatting bugs… Read More
Building a MythTV box
I want to share an experience with you all, since everybody loves to watch a train wreck. As developers, we like to think that the state of the LinuxTV project is continuously improving. Then I have days like yesterday…. I wanted to build myself a MythTV box for personal use. Since my goal is to… Read More
dib0700 IR fixes
In response to ongoing issues with the IR support for dib0700 and firmware 1.20, I spent most of yesterday refactoring the code. When firmware 1.20 was introduced, the dib0700 switched from a polling model using a USB control message, to the messages being delivered on a USB bulk pipe. The code I originally added would… Read More
PCTV 340e feedback
We received a good bit of feedback in the last 24 hours from users trying out the PCTV 340e driver, and I am happy to say that 100% of it has been positive. There were a few issues with new users not familiar with compiling v4l-dvb from source code, but everybody who has tried it… Read More