I think I've bugged the multimedia guys enough with this
subject. I have a tv tuner which I've been trying for over a
year to work on FreeBSD, with no success. I have found out a
bundle of info though.
Apparently there are manufacturer drivers for the card on
Fedora 4, which is seriously outdated now, and there is only
"experimental" drivers for some of the latest
linux derivatives.
The card uses a new conexant cx2388x chipset, a phillips
saa7134 chipset, and a zarlink mt352 chipset onboard- mainly
because this is a hybrid card. Many of the new tv tuner
cards are using these chipsets, so if it can be worked out
then it may resolve the headaches for many users. It would
seem that currently none of the new tv tuners are working at
all on freebsd.
The drivers in all cases use a module and create udev
devices.
So my question is- how can we adapt these or whatever so
that BSD devices are made? Where can I find a crash course
in making devices? So far what I've read hasn't been making
sense, so some clarity would be appreciated.
Second, where can I find info to use the linux compat api to
port the linux drivers to bsd? Apparently the reason why
newer drivers were not made (fedora 3-4 had drivers
available) appears to be due to a threading issue
(multi-thread changes?), so they should work on freebsd if
we could adapt the drivers (as far as I understand).
I am very new to this- I've been driven to this due to this
stupid card issue- so please be gentle  Any advice
and information would be appreciated.
Cheers
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