From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:03:31 -0400 From: Steven Toth In-reply-to: <412bdbff0809161150v71abb7d0g5232bf0b23284c46@mail.gmail.com> To: Devin Heitmueller Message-id: <48D00303.8060808@linuxtv.org> MIME-version: 1.0 References: <412bdbff0809152102j4faa675cw3134efe5403020bd@mail.gmail.com> <48CF3D97.40805@linuxtv.org> <412bdbff0809160544h28f90d86x81adcb37626fd518@mail.gmail.com> <48CFE09E.2030009@linuxtv.org> <412bdbff0809161002n5ec1eb29k490b638134bf6b3f@mail.gmail.com> <48CFFCE1.4060507@linuxtv.org> <412bdbff0809161150v71abb7d0g5232bf0b23284c46@mail.gmail.com> Cc: linux-dvb , Michael Krufky Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] [FIX] Use correct firmware for the ATI TV Wonder 600 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-dvb-bounces@linuxtv.org Errors-To: linux-dvb-bounces+mchehab=infradead.org@linuxtv.org List-ID: Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Steven Toth wrote: >> Devin Heitmueller wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Steven Toth wrote: >>>> Devin Heitmueller wrote: >>>>> Thanks for your help in getting this pulled in. The moral of this >>>>> story seems to have been that it's *way* easier to just buy the damn >>>>> thing than to add support for someone's device remotely. 92 emails >>>>> over three weeks to get support added versus 1 evening to get support >>>>> working right. :-) >>>> /me nods >>>> >>>> Better still, have someone give you a device for free in return for help. >>> Better still, have a vendor give you a device for free and make the >>> datasheets available in return for having their device supported. :-) >> Believe it or not but I'm starting to see that happen, although with some >> restrictions. > > Well, sign me up! I would love to help the efforts to expand device > support, but at this point I'm personally blocked by the fact that I > have already bought four tuners in the last year, combined with the > lack of actual documentation which results in it taking *way* longer > than it has to. > > Sure, I got all four of them to work which is progress, but it would > have gone much faster if the docs were available to me and I wasn't > laying out my own cash to buy tuners I have no personal use for. > > I've spent all this time to learn the codebase and I'd like to > leverage that knowledge more, but now I have to ask myself, "What am I > going to do with four tuners?" Hauppauge always have opensource projects that need help. If you're interested we can discuss off-line, email my Hauppauge address and we'll pick up on the discussion privately. Regards, - Steve _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb