[linux-dvb] request driver for cards

[linux-dvb] request driver for cards

[Theunis Potgieter]

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Hi, what is the procedure to request drivers for specific new, perhaps
unknown supported cards?

I did have a look at http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page but it
didn't contain any information about supported cards. Neither did
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/dvb/cards.txt for the following brands:

name, site:
Compro, S300 http://www.comprousa.com/en/product/s300/s300.html
K-World VS-DVB-S 100/IS,
http://global.kworld-global.com/main/prod_in.aspx?mnuid=1248&modid=6&pcid=46&ifid=16&prodid=98

Perhaps I shouldn't waste time if I could find a dual/twin tuner card for
dvb-s or dvb-s2. Are there any recommended twin-tuner pci-e cards that is
support and can actually be bought by the average consumer?

Thanks

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Re: [linux-dvb] request driver for cards

[H. Langos]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:07:00PM +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote:
> Hi, what is the procedure to request drivers for specific new, perhaps
> unknown supported cards?

The "procedure" is to hit google with something 
like "linux <vendor> <model>" and see what you find. :-)

Especially links to mailing list archives like linux-media and linux-dvb
are worth a read.


> Perhaps I shouldn't waste time if I could find a dual/twin tuner card for
> dvb-s or dvb-s2. Are there any recommended twin-tuner pci-e cards that is
> support and can actually be bought by the average consumer?

Did you risk a look at any of those?

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCI_Cards
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCIe_Cards
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCI_Cards
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCIe_Cards

I suspect they might contain some usable informaion. You should however
take into account that most developers don't care to update a bazillion
different places after they added support for a particular devices. So 
in most cases there will be a brief announcment on the developers
mailinglist and the code is the documentation.

cheers
-henrik

Re: [linux-dvb] request driver for cards

[Theunis Potgieter]

On 15/10/2009, H. Langos <henrik-dvb@prak.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 03:07:00PM +0200, Theunis Potgieter wrote:
>  > Hi, what is the procedure to request drivers for specific new, perhaps
>  > unknown supported cards?
>
>
> The "procedure" is to hit google with something
>  like "linux <vendor> <model>" and see what you find. :-)
>
I meant to say: Where do I ask for a new driver to be written for an
unsupported card. Or Perhaps the card is already supported and I just
couldn't see it from a singular view. (linuxtv.org, mailing list,
Google)

>  Especially links to mailing list archives like linux-media and linux-dvb
>  are worth a read.
>
>
I joined linux-dvb@linuxtv.org recently and I was informed that the
mailing list is deprecated and I should join this mailing list
instead. (you will see my first mail on their list too)

>
>  > Perhaps I shouldn't waste time if I could find a dual/twin tuner card for
>  > dvb-s or dvb-s2. Are there any recommended twin-tuner pci-e cards that is
>  > support and can actually be bought by the average consumer?
>
>
> Did you risk a look at any of those?
>
>  http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCI_Cards
>  http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCIe_Cards
>  http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCI_Cards
>  http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCIe_Cards
>

I did visit those, and I couldn't find any sellers of the twin tuner
cards on  http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_PCIe_Cards :(
They would be perfect. Exept I can't find where to buy these. Perhaps
they are re-branded and somebody here knows this already?

This site http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_PCI_Cards does
not list the Compro S300 neither the KWorld dvb-s 100. I just happened
to grep -i kworld /usr/src/linux/drivers/media/dvb/*/* and found
KWorld to be somewhat supported. Great so I know that one. How to
approach Compro S300?

The problem is this: Either I setup my old penium 3 machine with 5 pci
slots (which I try to avoid) or buy a new machine with only 2 pci
slots and 2 pci-e 1x slots. The options becomes limited on new
machines if you want 4 or more tuners in the same machine. So I need
some advice if it is feasible to run 5 dvb-s single tuner cards in a
pentium3 or 5 tuners (2 twin tuner cards and single card) on an atom
based machine?

>  I suspect they might contain some usable informaion. You should however
>  take into account that most developers don't care to update a bazillion
>  different places after they added support for a particular devices. So
>  in most cases there will be a brief announcment on the developers
>  mailinglist and the code is the documentation.
>

I recently joined this mailing list and will be a lookout for anything
related to twin tuner cards sent by developers. Or if somebody knows
just reply to this thread.

Thanks for the help.

>  cheers
>  -henrik
>