[mpeg2] Re: LuxSonor MPEG2 H/W decoder

[Ian Carvalho <ian@globaledgesoft.com>]

Hi!

Just a thought. LuxSonor was bought by CirrusLogic. Maybe you could 
check their web site to see if there is relevant info.

Regards

Owen Savill wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It has been suggested by a friend that I ask for help from LinuxTV.  
> Appologies if this is of no interest what-so-ever !!
>
> I have had for several years my Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop. Ever since  
> switching to Linux I have tried to get everything working / supported. 
> The  only thing left is the LuxSonor LS242 hardware MPEG2 decoder 
> card. Frankly  I'm out of my depth here !! I have the Sourceforge 
> project code, which  started and died in 2000, and LuxSonor's own 
> Windows reference driver code  which they released to the wild just 
> before going down. In 2002 Alan Cox  did some work with this device, 
> but abandoned it. I beleive his work is  still in the kernel tree and 
> newer kernels correctly detect this card, but  sadly there is no 
> driver for it.
>
> I have been told that the 2.6 kernels are "easy" (not my word) to get 
> this  kind of thing working with. But I have never done kernel modules 
> before !
>
> Is there anyone out there who would help me with this venture ?
>
> Thanks,
> Owen Savill