ubuntu saa7134 driver - I'll like update it due to the standard one is too obsolete for my card :-)

[Tim Gardner]

sioux wrote:
> Hi ubuntus  8-) ... I am Sioux the Signed-OFF (with collaboration of 
> other funny guys ;-) ) of saa7134 driver for card=131 a Twinhan Hybrid 
> DTV-DVB 3056 PCI (sources codes and driver are available at linuxtv.org 
> project).
> 
> I see ubuntu comes out with a default saa7134 driver that not include my 
> card and each time I do a kernel update I must recompile the driver 
> :-(     from linuxtv.org; so with your help I would like to update this 
> driver for the ubuntu distro ( :-P  my preferred desktop OS).
> 
> I am not a developer, I am an autodidatta (sorry I don't know how 
> translate it in english) and who wants help me is welcome!
> 
> Let me know what I have to do.
> Bye for now.
> 
> Sioux.
> 

Convince the upstream project to stay current with ALSA. saa7134 isn't
going to get updated until the ALSA backport in linux-backports-modules
in April.

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at ubuntu.com