FreeBSD video recorder (was: FreeBSD as a HTPC!)

[Kevin Downey]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Dieter <freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com> wrote:
>> does anyone know how the heck you build the driver for the divco
>> fusion? as far as I can tell it is a bunch of files in p4, which means
>> it is a huge pain to get them. I think I did manage to build the
>> kernel module but it made my amd64 machine kernel panic.
>
>> I sent an email to JohnMarkGurney with some questions, but I never got a reply.
>
>> so saying the card is supported maybe a stretch.
>
> Sorry, I don't have a dvico card, so I haven't tried JMG's driver.
> In my defense, I didn't say it was supported, I said there was a driver.  :-)
> (and I don't post in base64 which creates problems, hint hint)
>
> I am using Jason's cx88 driver on 7.0/amd64, it compiles easily and doesn't panic.
> The latest version claims to support:
>
> DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Gold (ATSC)
> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1100 (DVB-T)
> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1100 LP (DVB-T)
> Leadtek WinFast DTV2000H (DVB-T)
> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1300 (DVB-T)
> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-3000 (DVB-T)
> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-4000 (DVB-T)
> pcHDTV HD-3000 (ATSC)
> pcHDTV HD-5500 (ATSC)
> Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T (DVB-T)
>
> ftp://corona.homeunix.net/cx88_20080824.tar.gz
>
> So I guess we have *two* drivers for the DViCO 5.
>
> (I checked the announcement (from Sept), it does use the word "support".  :-)  )
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together with the Gold listed above that brings to number of dvico "5"
cards up to three. The Gold, the Lite, and the RT Lite. the kernel
modules built from the tarball you posted did nothing in my machine
with the "Lite" card in it. no panics, not device attaching, nothing
in dmesg, nada. If JMG is out there, now would be a good time to step
up and explain whether by supported he means, "it worked on my machine
this one time" or "it should work everywhere and I stand by it"

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