Request for Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 firmware inclusion in linux-firmware package

Pete Graner pgraner at canonical.com
Mon Feb 9 18:02:13 UTC 2009


Michael F. Rimbert wrote:
> Kernel Team,
> 
> As described in
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hauppauge_WinTV-HVR-1800,
> firmware for the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 tuner card can be found
> here: http://steventoth.net/linux/hvr1800/.  There are two files that
> should be placed in /lib/firmware: v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw and
> v4l-cx23885-enc.fw.
> 
> The latest version of linux-firmware (1.5) in jaunty does not yet
> include this firmware.  Please add this firmware to the package.
> 
> This request was also made in bug 321076:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/321076
> 
> Thank you,
> Mike
> --
> mrimbert at ubuntu.com
> 

Can you point me to the license for the firmware, I don't see it in the 
windows driver and can't find it on the Hauppauge site or on linuxtv.org

Thanks

~pete

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