1cx8800 release notes
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3
4This is a v4l2 device driver for the cx2388x chip.
5
6
7current status
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9
10video
11	- Basically works.
12	- For now, only capture and read(). Overlay isn't supported.
13
14audio
15	- The chip specs for the on-chip TV sound decoder are next
16	  to useless :-/
17	- Neverless the builtin TV sound decoder starts working now,
18	  at least for some standards.
19	  FOR ANY REPORTS ON THIS PLEASE MENTION THE TV NORM YOU ARE
20	  USING.
21	- Most tuner chips do provide mono sound, which may or may not
22	  be useable depending on the board design.  With the Hauppauge
23	  cards it works, so there is mono sound available as fallback.
24	- audio data dma (i.e. recording without loopback cable to the
25	  sound card) is supported via cx88-alsa.
26
27vbi
28	- Code present. Works for NTSC closed caption. PAL and other
29	  TV norms may or may not work.
30
31
32how to add support for new cards
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34
35The driver needs some config info for the TV cards.  This stuff is in
36cx88-cards.c.  If the driver doesn't work well you likely need a new
37entry for your card in that file.  Check the kernel log (using dmesg)
38to see whenever the driver knows your card or not.  There is a line
39like this one:
40
41	cx8800[0]: subsystem: 0070:3400, board: Hauppauge WinTV \
42		34xxx models [card=1,autodetected]
43
44If your card is listed as "board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC" it is unknown to
45the driver.  What to do then?
46
47 (1) Try upgrading to the latest snapshot, maybe it has been added
48     meanwhile.
49 (2) You can try to create a new entry yourself, have a look at
50     cx88-cards.c.  If that worked, mail me your changes as unified
51     diff ("diff -u").
52 (3) Or you can mail me the config information.  I need at least the
53     following informations to add the card:
54
55     * the PCI Subsystem ID ("0070:3400" from the line above,
56       "lspci -v" output is fine too).
57     * the tuner type used by the card.  You can try to find one by
58       trial-and-error using the tuner=<n> insmod option.  If you
59       know which one the card has you can also have a look at the
60       list in CARDLIST.tuner
61
62Have fun,
63
64  Gerd
65
66--
67Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> [SuSE Labs]
68