If this was just about beeing able to watch a channel or not, then the method you described would be sufficient - however, this is about plugging the "analog hole" and not opening a much worse digital one. Just imagine - if people controlled their set top boxen, they could record any content and play it back when they want (assuming there was a hard disk inside). They could implement a Skip-30-seconds button on their remotes. All other kinds of evil things could be done that deprive the cable companies and content providers of the contol they want.
If you wanted to avoid this, the hardware would have to be much more expensive, which is probably not what they want.
It does provide access by executing the parts of the "toner access control program" that were ment only to be used with authentic lexmark toner. DeCSS isn't used to print out DVDs... Do the same with an electronically controlled valve instead of the plastic funnel, and you get your fuel monopoly, using DMCA on a car...
I'm using a Chery G80-5000 since a few years. It's adjustable in lots of ways, and best of all, has the windows keys the way they should have always been. They are on the left side of the keyboard, like the function keys on the old XT style keyboards, and they have 'left' and 'right' written on them!. There should be several variants with and without click, I personally perfer the no-click version.
I also have a Marquartd mini-ergoII (not adjustable, cursor keys in the middle, pageup, down and pos1 , end as well as the numeric pad can be used with a "fn" key) Although i think it's much more comfortable than the average 10$ keyboard, i don't like it because the blind-typing marks are just little embossed lines on the appropriate keys. I don't like it...
Assuming you have already turned off PnP, and set the card to a sane configuration like io=0x300 and irq=5 with softset2.
Have a look at/proc/interrupts. If it's zero, then the driver just doesn't work with your card, except probably (but i can't remember exaclty) at irq 5. Try mine (to be found at titan.cs.bonn.edu/~canavan).
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If this was just about beeing able to watch a channel or not, then the method you described would be sufficient - however, this is about plugging the "analog hole" and not opening a much worse digital one. Just imagine - if people controlled their set top boxen, they could record any content and play it back when they want (assuming there was a hard disk inside). They could implement a Skip-30-seconds button on their remotes. All other kinds of evil things could be done that deprive the cable companies and content providers of the contol they want.
If you wanted to avoid this, the hardware would have to be much more expensive, which is probably not what they want.
It does provide access by executing the parts of the "toner access control program" that were ment only to be used with authentic lexmark toner. DeCSS isn't used to print out DVDs... Do the same with an electronically controlled valve instead of the plastic funnel, and you get your fuel monopoly, using DMCA on a car...
I'm using a Chery G80-5000 since a few years. It's adjustable in lots of ways, and best of all, has the windows keys the way they should have always been. They are on the left side of the keyboard, like the function keys on the old XT style keyboards, and they have 'left' and 'right' written on them!. There should be several variants with and without click, I personally perfer the no-click version.
I also have a Marquartd mini-ergoII (not adjustable, cursor keys in the middle, pageup, down and pos1 , end as well as the numeric pad can be used with a "fn" key) Although i think it's much more comfortable than the average 10$ keyboard, i don't like it because the blind-typing marks are just little embossed lines on the appropriate keys. I don't like it...
Rainer
Assuming you have already turned off PnP, and set the card to a sane configuration like io=0x300 and irq=5 with softset2.
/proc/interrupts. If it's zero, then the driver just doesn't work with your card, except probably (but i can't remember exaclty) at irq 5. Try mine (to be found at titan.cs.bonn.edu/~canavan).
Have a look at
Rainer