Driver for Hauppauge WinTV card with CX2388x chip (NOT BT8x8)?

[Julian Elischer]

Are you in luck!

one was posted here last week..
 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=25222+187217+/usr/local/www/db/text/2004/freebsd-multimedia/20040201.freebsd-multimedia

not specifically for THAT card, but a related one..

I'm sure the author would like ot hear from you :-)


On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have started to build myself a Home Theater PC (HTPC). I'm using
> FreeBSD 4.9-stable as operating system, because this is what I know (and
> I'm lazy).
> 
> In this machine, I need a TV card in order to watch or record TV
> programs. So I looked at the documentation for the bktr driver, in order
> to make sure I got myself a supprted TV card. I also searched
> the web extensively, to see if there was prveious experience, Finally, I
> bought a Hauppauge WinTV PCI FM, model 747. According to all the common
> knowledge, the WinTV series uses BT8x8 chips, and are supported by the
> bktr driver. However, this seems to be a newer model.
> from dmesg:
> pci1: <unknown card> (vendor=0x14f1, dev=0x8800) at 2.0 irq 11
> pci1: <unknown card> (vendor=0x14f1, dev=0x8811) at 2.1 irq 11
> 
> from 'pciconf -lv':
> none2 at pci1:2:0: class=0x040000 card=0x34010070 chip=0x880014f1 rev=0x03
> hdr=0x00    vendor   = 'Conexant Systems, Inc.'
>     device   = 'CX2388x TV Card (MSI PVS Video Capture)'
>     class    = multimedia
>     subclass = video
> none3 at pci1:2:1: class=0x048000 card=0x34010070 chip=0x881114f1 rev=0x03
> hdr=0x00    vendor   = 'Conexant Systems, Inc.'
>     class    = multimedia
> 
> and finally, from 'lspci -v' (from the pciutils port):
> 01:02.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8800 (rev
> 03)        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 3401
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
>         Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>         Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> 
> 01:02.1 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8811 (rev 03)
>         Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 3401
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
>         Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>         Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>         Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
> 
> Has anybody got one of these cards working with FreeBSD? If so, where
> can I get a driver?
> Or do you know if this chip (the CX2388x) is so similar to the BT8x8
> chip that it would be worthwile spending some time trying to make it
> work with the bktr driver?
> 
> Option three, how hard would it be to write a driver for this chip? I
> have never written a driver under FreeBSD before, so this will require
> me to as all of you a lot of questions. ;^)
> -- 
> Torfinn Ingolfsen,
> Norway
> 
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