[mythtv-users] Re: New HD3000 drivers

[Brian Merrill]

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>
>New drivers have been released for the HD-3000 card.  Some cards took
>slightly longer to initialize and the driver tried to communicate before
>it was ready.  The new HD-3000 driver fixes this problem.  If you had
>problems with the card before, it should be fine now.
>
>In the next week or two there will be yet another driver release that
>will have improved 64 bit and MP support.  The buffer will also be
>doubled and we should see the Buffer Overrun errors pretty much vanish.
>
>For those who want to follow driver development, I will be setting up a
>site on freedesktop.org once their server comes back online.  I'll post
>the information here along with the maillist to join if you are
>interested in following or helping driver work.  One improvement I'm
>personally looking forward to is right now we send the full 45Mb stream
>over the PCI bus.  When you have 2-3 cards and are saving these streams
>to disk that adds up quickly, and this is partially responsible poorer
>playback on amd based systems.  Another goal will be to get the driver
>accepted into the kernel.  
>
>--Brandon
>

I have been having the above problem (I think) where myth would fail as 
soon as "Watch TV" unless I run dtvsignal /dev/dtv 38 first and then 
launch mythfrontend.  Is there a place that the "released" driver you 
mentioned can be obtained until you get the freedesktop.org site setup?  
I don't see the new driver on the pchdtv.com download page.  The latest 
I see is dated 08-November-2004.

Thanks,
Brian