Re: new WinTV/Hauppage conexant - nogo bttv

["Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 11:37:41PM +0100, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > I tried to get one of these newer WinTV PCI cards working
> > under Redhat 8.0 with a 2.4.20 kernel.
> > 
> > lspci lists this as unknown device (8800).
> > 
> > I put an old BT848 card in the system and it worked 
> > right off.
> > 
> > Any clues how to get this card working?
> > 
> > --
> > Christoph Kukulies
> 
> What do you mena with "newer" ? There are a lot of different types (with \

Yes, it has the Conexant 23881 chip on it.

> the same model number). If it is brand new, it might be based on the 
> Conexant CX23880/CX23881, the successor of the bt878 (at least I've read 
> somewhere that hauppauge will probably convert all its cards to that 
> chip). This chip is not supported by a linux driver. And it's impossible 

Thanks for this statement. I will pass this back to those who
gave me the order to use linux for this setup :-)

> to write a driver, since the datasheet is not available (not sure why, 
> maybe has something to do with the way the chip handles macrovision in a 
> digital tv stream? this is pure speculation however).
> 
> Roland
> 
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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx