Re: Huappauge WinTV-HVR 1850

[Michael Libertin <michael.libertin@xxxxxxxx>]

No, I was under no delusions that it's any easy task, and I'm very grateful
to everyone in the project. The only reason I suspected it would work when I
purchased the card was because Huappauge's website was misleading: the FAQ
for this card is simply a link to the FAQ for the 1800, where it says the
1800 is supported. I realize the two aren't the same card and the FAQ
doesn't say the 1850 specifically works, but it's misleading of them to have
both cards share the same FAQ and on the FAQ mention Linux support when the
cards are different enough that one of them isn't supported. It's especially
bad given that apparently they're now shipping the 1850 to customers who
order the 1800.....

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Devin Heitmueller <
dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Michael Libertin
> <michael.libertin@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  > Correct, analog is not supported on that board at this time under
> Linux.
> > Darn.
> >  > Can you contribute $5000.00?
> > I wish I could, but I'm a poor college student : (
>
> I'm not trying to be a prick about this, but people seem to operate
> under the assumption that their hardware should "just work" out of the
> box for no cost.  In reality, the boards work because developers
> invest hundreds of hours analyzing, reverse engineering, writing and
> then debugging the drivers.  And that's *after* the time they took to
> learn C.  ;-)
>
> > Anywho, are there plans to support it eventually?
>
> There are no plans to work on it at this time.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Devin
>
> --
> Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs
> http://www.kernellabs.com
>
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