ASUS TV FM 7135 (Philips 7135) card supported by bktr(4)?

[Ryan Thompson]

Peter Jeremy wrote to Ryan Thompson on Mon, Jan 24th at 07:26 +1100:

> On Sat, 2005-Jan-22 13:43:10 -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote:
>
>> I'm toying with a known-good ASUS TV FM 7135 card, which is using the
>> Philips 7135 chipset (according to their web site, and the stamped chip
>> on the board). Just for kicks, I've added the following to my kernel:
> ...
>> Does anyone know how easily this card could be supported?
>
> I have a Tevion tuner using the same chipset.
>
> The bad news is that programming details do not appear to be available
> from Philips and there's no official FreeBSD support.  AFAIK, the
> chips are nothing like the Brooktree chips.

Yep, I think that's safe to say now.

> The good news is that there an unofficial driver at
> http://download.purpe.com/ that works (for me) on 5.3.  There's also
> Linux support (which may be useful for ideas).

Thank you! The driver works better than the Windows one. :-)
At least, the configuration makes more sense.

The author (Rohit Jalan) will also receive my thanks. :-)

- Ryan

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