Re: linux dvb alps_tdlb7 removed

From: Peter Waechtler
Date: Sun Mar 13 2005 - 11:29:29 EST



Am 11.03.2005 um 21:10 schrieb Kenneth Aafløy:

On Friday 11 March 2005 13:58, Juri Haberland wrote:
In article <aebc44b2e0c42cc9dc0ec0b215c10ec4@xxxxxxx> you wrote:
With version 2.6.10 the driver for the tuner frontend from ALPS TDLB7
was removed.

Why do you think that this is a dead file?
While I'm happy with the work you do for dvb on Linux, and I want to
thank you for this anyway, my TV does not work anymore! :(

I use a TechoTrend Premium card with that frontend on it. It worked
fine until 2.6.10.
Can you put it back into mainline? Is there some work to do for
reinsertion?

I think the driver you now need is sp8870. It's just another name for

Yup you are right. If someone has a card that is no longer working,
please have a look at these pages and contact the linuxtv-dvb mailing-list:

http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Supported_DVB_cards
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB_cards_requiring_definition
http://www.linuxtv.org/lists.php

Thanx, now it works again under 2.6.11
I had to create a link in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware with the new name also.

Peter

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