From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 18:51:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 681B016A4D1 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:51:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD0C43D5F for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:51:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E6C7A403; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <41701C39.4050401@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:51:37 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Edwin Groothuis References: <20041015123218.GI10358@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20041015123218.GI10358@k7.mavetju> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PVR-250/350 driver in the ports tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:51:38 -0000 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 > > >