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Sundtek MediaTV Pro (Europe) / Sundtek Media TV Pro Linux Installation
« am: August 15, 2009, 12:46:14 Nachmittag »
Dear Sundtek,

Could you point me to the Source code, or tell me if/when this is/becomes available?
Why is this driver not included in the main kernel? (Like all other drivers)

Open source support is a requirement from our side for buying such a product. We've been bitten once
by ATI, who dropped support in their driver for my video card (effectively giving me the option between never upgrading linux again or buying a new card...) With the fast evolution of the Linux kernel I am not willing to take such a chance again. (I can understand such a model working for Windows, but not Linux. It just changes too often)

Moreover, having the driver in open souce will decrease the maintainance burden from your side.
"Ease of installation" is not a differentiator when the driver is included in the kernel and therefore in all distributions. A (graphical) configuration tool is then all you would need to provide instead of a full driver installation script...

Regards,

Bert Haverkamp
Oatfield Electronics

Bert

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