[mythtv] Dual tuner card

[Micah Morton]

Interesting - I have a couple questions though. Once conexant releases a
driver for linux, will it be only for lindowsOS? or will it be released
for all linux variants?  I'm concerned about this because although I have
nothing against lindowsOS and actually thing its pretty awesome, I feel
dirty paying for closed source software. So, I may switch to lindows down
the line, but for now, mandrake/debian will have to do.

Also, the other drivers developed for lindows... will they too be lindows
only? or will the driver make its way to the linux market via open source?
 Any info is GREATLY appreciated!

Let the year of the linux desktop begin!

--Micah Morton
--Linux Network Test Engineer
--Intel Corp

> Actually, I have had the head of driver development for Conexant in my
> office all week working on the linux driver with our engineers (not a
> "rep").  We should have a driver for the 23880/1 chip ready in a few
> weeks.  I have already gotten it to work with 2.4.20 kernel and we are
> working out a few bugs.
>
> You have to remember, this is the year of the "Linux Desktop".  Everyone
> is in a mad scramble to catch up with the growing demand for linux on
> the desktop.  As our company is at the forefront of the Linux Desktop
> movement, I see the the demand for drivers first hand.  Almost on a
> daily basis, I get calls from various hardware and chip makers and
> vendors looking to develop or have us develop linux drivers for their
> product.  Conexant happens to be one that contacted us and is urgently
> looking to get out a linux driver for their latest chipset.
>
> I will keep you posted and as I love the MythTV project, I will make
> sure that you guys are the first to know when we release the Conexant
> driver for the 23880/1 chipset.
>
> --
> Merle Reine <merle.reine at lindows.com>
> Lindows.com Hardware Certification
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 19:52, Bruce Markey wrote:
>> tarek Lubani wrote:
>> > I don't for a moment believe that's genuine naivete...
>>
>> Busted ;-) I wanted Merle to think about how empty that
>> non-promise is. In fact, my interpretation is that he was
>> told "no" and didn't understand. "That should be possible",
>> "we're currently exploring that", "this is on our list of
>> future enhancments", "blah, blah, future release", and
>> "this is a priority" are all polite ways for customers
>> reps to say "no" and let the customer believe whatever
>> they'd like without making any promises.
>>
>> --  bjm
>>
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> Merle Reine <merle.reine at lindows.com>
> Lindows.com Hardware Certification
>
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