[Jaunty] patch for saa7127: fix broken S-Video on some PVR350 cards

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Sat Feb 14 00:47:07 UTC 2009


Hi Martin,

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 23:55 +0100, Martin Dauskardt wrote:
> > the saa7127.c in kernel 2.6.28 has a bug which brokes S-Video for cards with 
> a 
> > saa7129 chip. I already made a patch to fix it which was accepted by the 
> > maintainer:
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/166/ 
> > 
> > Unfortunately the fix is still not in the 2.6.28-series. It is part of 
> > 2.6.29-rc4
> > 
> > The above mentioned posting includes a saa7127.diff for kernel 2.6.28
> > 
> > I read that Jaunty will have a 2.6.28 kernel. Would be great if you could 
> > integrate my patch.
> 
> I get the feeling that my posting is totally ignored here. 
> 
> I thought it would be a good idea to report the problem here. The PVR350 is 
> used by many mythtv users, so I guess a lot of users will have problems with 
> the bug.

I've filed the following bug report in Launchpad so that this gets
tracked and fixed.

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/329267

Thanks,
Leann





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