On Tue, Sep 23 2003 at 08:27:11am +0200, Benjamin Sonntag benjamin-at-octopuce.com |v4l| wrote: > Hi sneakemail, Hi, I use a sneakemail adress because I've had quite a few problems with spam, and since this mailing list is webarchived, I don't want the spambots to get my adress. My name is Daniel though =) > YES, I have the same card : > > It's a MT2050, I also contacted Pinnacle (in France) and they told me > so, and they also told me that they do not support linux .... > > So ... > > I asked Microtune for the specs, and they wanted me to sign a NDA (Non > Disclosure Agreement) to be able to access their tuner specs. The > problem is that I don't know how to understand this NDA (my english > knowledge is not so good and it's written with lawyer language...) and I > don't know if it allows me to develop a GPL driver. So I did not signed > it yet... Do you have that NDA in electronic form? I could ask a lawyer I know that specialises in copyright and software law. > Maybe we can reverse-enginer the windows tuner driver (it's quite a > little program...) reverse-enginering is still allowed in France. It is allowed in sweden too, but since i'm not at all familiar with windows drivers, I don't think I would do such a good job at it. > The problem is that I don't know how to trace and debug windows drivers > > If you have a better idea, ... maybe just trying to find the differences > with MT2032, but they seems pretty different anyway. I don't think the differences are that huge judging by the differences between the MT2032 and the MT2040. But I think that it will be hard to find those differences. What might be able to help though would be some kind of tool to monitor the I2C-bus since some of the instructions ought to be the same, I think we could manage to find what instructions are used to modify the MT2050 registers. Do you know of any tool like that in windows? We could at least try... The best thing would of course be if we got hold of the specifications under some agreement that would make it possible for us to use them in a GPL driver. > Regards, > > Benjamin Sonntag > <benjamin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Thank you for responding /Daniel
