[linux-dvb] Re: VP-1030

[ABBAS AL-MUTAWA <abbasalmutawa@yahoo.com>]

hi
 I have VP-1020 card, i have contact Twinahn several
time and they are agoing to release LinuxSdx within 25
days, but it will be closed as i think. also the same
things happen with me, when i tried to insmod the
btv878, my system crash. i have search the net for a
suitable driver but i couldnt, what i found is an old
driver for kernel 2.4.7 or 2.4.12. my card now is just
a paperweight.

but bt878 is well known, why no body intersted in
devloping a driver for this card, is it so difficult! 


--- "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@fluido.as> wrote:
> 	Subject: [linux-dvb] Re: VP-1030
> 	Date: gio, ago 21, 2003 at 04:56:36 +0200
> 
> Quoting Norberto García Prieto (ngarcia@uvigo.es):
> 
> > > These twinhan cards (I have a VP-1020) employ a
> frontend chip that has
> > > been developed by twinhan themselves, and these
> people refuse to
> > > publish programming specs for it. The card is
> not so popular to
> > > justify a reverse-engineering effort from the
> Linux community.
> > 
> > 	The frontend is an basically an
> STV0299/TSA5059/SL1925. They
> > have some information for it. The stv0299 driver
> supports this
> > frontend. These cards may become very popular,
> cause Hercules and
> > new Pinnacle's are made by Twinhan. They are also
> very cheap.
> 
> Does it mean that if you load the stv0299 module
> your card is
> recognized? This would mean that you are able to
> tune, get signal
> strength/SNR data, and eventually extract DVB
> streams. I had
> understood this would not be the case. (could try
> myself but I am
> exceedingly busy with work as of now...)
> 
> > 	The problem i've now is that i can't start
> playing with them
> > if bttv hangs the system. 
> 
> I have witnessed the same crash when insmodding the
> default bt878
> module. Having understood that the custom chip
> (labebed DTV20023 on my
> card) had little or no hope of being supported, I
> dedicated my time to
> other topics...
> 
> > > If you look at the archives of the mailing list,
> you will read about
> > > recent efforts at contacting these people,
> without satisfactory
> > > result: it seems they are in the process of
> developing a closed-source
> > > driver, but they still haven't published
> anything.
> > 
> 
> > 	I've contacted them and they send me a
> > driver/application. Problem is that they are for a
> very old version
> > of RedHat, and they are nor linux-dvb compatible.
> 
> I had tried to contact them on 22 March, and had
> received no echo. The
> 2-year-old file that can be downloaded on their site
> is useless.
> 
> Carlo
> 
> -- 
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> state messe da parte,
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> 
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