Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:51:37 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PVR-250/350 driver in the ports tree Message-ID: <41701C39.4050401@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20041015123218.GI10358@k7.mavetju> References: <20041015123218.GI10358@k7.mavetju>
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Edwin Groothuis wrote: >Hello, > >A couple of weeks ago I became the happy owner of a PVR-250 card >and of course ran into all possible problems I could imagine. To >make a long story short, it all works now, thanks to the posting >of John Wehle of his cxm driver. > >To make this driver more accessible to others (multimedia newbies >like me), I asked his permission to put this driver into the ports >collection. Now that the ports-freeze has ended, I have commited >the driver into the ports tree: multimedia/pvr250 (I could of course >have called it multimedia/cxm, sysutils/cxm, multimedia/pvr250-350 >etc, but since I only had a PVR-250 I stuck with it). > >What does the port do right now? It installs, if all pre-requisites >are fullfilled, the cxm.ko and cxm_iic.ko modules. It gives some >background information about the how to check if the card works. >It has a disclaimer that I'm only the port maintainer and don't >know anything about the software or the cards themselves. > >If you have such a card, please see if you can get the card working >with the port! > >What can go wrong: >- Complaints about checksum mismatch of the hcwPVRP2.sys: run "make > makesum" and try again. >- ??? <- tell me and I'll try to fix it! > how about I check it into the kernel tree? :-) ar there user utiities and man pages that should go with it? > >Edwin > > >
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