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
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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
Em28xx PAL VBI
With the HVR-1600 ALSA stuff completed and being validated, I switched over to wrapping up the outstanding em28xx VBI support for PAL. Since I do not have access to a teletext signal here in the United States, I have taken a two-phase approach to adding the support. Phase 1 involves local validation using a well-defined… Read More
HVR-900 R2 and PCTV 330e
I keep seeing people asking about support for these two devices, so I figured I should provide a status update. Just so you know, they are basically both the same piece of hardware – em28xx bridge, xc3028 tuner, and drx-d demodulator. The issue preventing it from being supported is the drx-d demod. With Michael Krufky’s… Read More
Em28xx VBI support and HVR-900 R2
I was out of town last week, so that’s why there weren’t any updates on my part. However, I’m “back in the saddle” and for the last couple of nights have been working on adding VBI support to the em28xx driver. I’ve got the isoc parsing code to work properly when VBI mode is enabled,… Read More
Various DVB-T patches
Spent Sunday afternoon at Michael Krufky’s house making use of his DVB-T generator. Identified a regression in the HVR-900 driver where the first tune would succeed and then all subsequent tunes would fail: http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/hvr-900-tuning-fix Brought online support for the HVR-900 R2, which many people have been clamoring for quite a while: http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/hvr-900-r2 A pull request… Read More
More minor fixes…
Still continuing to clear out my backlog of miscellaneous fixes. Added support for the K-World 2800d (thanks to Paul Thomas for loaning me the hardware and being so patient). While doing that work, I managed to uncover a minor bug in the em28xx audio code (the /dev/audio1 device file was being created even if the… Read More