From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 18 4:48:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96C237B684 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:48:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBICmV679426; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 07:48:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 07:48:31 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Stijn Hoop Cc: Josh , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creative dxr2 DVD Decoder Card Message-ID: <20011218074831.A79400@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20011218063032.R28888-100000@lilly> <20011218134155.A343@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011218134155.A343@pcwin002.win.tue.nl>; from stijn@win.tue.nl on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:41:55PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:41:55PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 06:49:12AM -0500, Josh wrote: > > Hello, > > I am inquiring about the dxr2 dvd decoder card made by creative. > > I would like to have some information about it, and whether anyone has > > tried to support it under FreeBSD. I am active with the dxr2 decoder card > > driver project for linux, and would like to possibly port the driver (and > > player) to FreeBSD. Has anyone tried this before? The biggest problem I > > find that I am going to run into is the non-opensource firmware file > > distributed by creative that needs to be loaded into the card for it too > > work. Any information anyone can give me would be appreicated, as I > > didn't know what list to send this request to. > > I didn't try to port anything, but I was keeping an eye on the Linux project > because I have a DXR-3 myself. If you are in need of FreeBSD testers, I'll > gladly volunteer. Writing kernel drivers is still a bit above my head though... > > Maybe you should also ask on freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org - that is a more > appropriate list for kernel hacking questions, in as far as I understand. -hackers isn't exactly a forum for user questions; it's a forum for discussing existing patches or fine details of implementation. Yes, it's where the hard-core coders hang out; they hang out there because it's for hard-core coders. -hackers is happy to hear messages like "Here's a patch to support the dxr2 dvd decoder, comments?" :) I'd suggest the FreeBSD-multimedia@FreeBSD.org mailing list; if there's an effort to work on this sort of thing, the people are likely to be hanging around over there. In any event, good luck! ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message