[vdr] Re: vdr <-> dbox2

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Mon, 2003-06-02 um 00.35 schrieb Hermann Gausterer:
> > The Dbox2 starts it's system from flash and I've read
> > something about a trick with shortening some pins to trick security lock
> > of Dbox2.
> 
> this was the old method for enable the famous "debug mode"
> pratical anouther mode of the bootloader (=bios) in which it
> is capable of loading the linux kernel oder another bootloader
> for networkbooting
> 

And what is the new one?

> > The linux-DVB -driver supports at least the tuner of the cable-version
> > of the Dbox2. And I think Neutrino uses DirectFB for displaying.
> 
> the question here is .. are the dvb api from the dbox guys and the 
> api from convergence the same thing??? realy a good question !

I'm talking about the Linux-DVB-driver. Not using Neutrino, but
Linux-DVB-driver and VDR (check the ML - someone added patches to
Linux-DVB and claimed it working with Dbox2-cable-frontend).

Rene



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