Okay, finally got my replacement card after first buying a new Hauppauge PCI that turned out to be completely useless with the current status of the CX2388xx drivers and I've now got xawtv working on the Terratec Cinergy 400. Sadly there does not seem to be any support for the attached IR remote sensor, at least not in LIRC. I did manage to google up a patch that I think originated on this list, originally developed to support the FlyVideo 3K board but supposedly also known to work with the terratecs. The patch slid right in (with a little fuzz, using a slightly newer version of the SAA driver) and compiled with no problems, but I am unable to get any sort of data with irrecord/irw after insmodding the new saa/lirc drivers. Irrecord starts up fine, prompts me to hold down a button and then exits after 10 seconds complaining about no data, while irw did absolutely nothing. This leads me to believe that there's some minor problem with either my specific setup, or with the patched driver for lirc. After dmesg'ing I did notice a strange message when modprobing lirc_gpio; "lirc is not a directory" or something very similar, which is truly a strange thing for a kernel module to say.. Anyway, it would be much appreciated if someone could give me a heads-up on when to expect a working lirc driver for this particular chipset; so far I've only been able to find this one patch to lirc, but there may be others that aren't in google's cache, if so please let me know. Now to question 2; I stumbled across a few references to using DMA to read audio from the tuner rather than using the (very noisy) looped mini-jack to mike in, and this sounds like a brilliant idea but how does it work? Does the SAA7134 driver create a new dsp device under /dev which can be used as any other OSS sound source, does this require special parameters at load time etc? I haven't seen any documentation on this but maybe I just haven't looked hard enough.
