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I downloaded the application source and the driver files from this website:

http://people.freebsd.org/~rhh/fxtv/

First, one must install Xfree86. An excellent guide is available here:

http://homepage.mac.com/rgriff/xdarwin.html

After that, one needs to FIRST install the drivers for the card, THEN the image-capture application (the application's install script relies on some of the driver files, so they need to be present for the install to work).

Here's where I ran into trouble. The READ ME that accompanies the driver software assumes the reader a) is working on a "pure" FreeBSD system, and b) is upgrading from a previous install, not doing an initial install.

The problem is that the READ ME is very vague, at least to my novice ears. It is partly due to the fact that while OS X is based on FreeBSD, it's file system layout is different from the one offered in the instructions. (Example: it says to put one of the files in path /usr/sys/dev/blahblahblah, though no such path exists in OS X...understand what I'm saying?) It seems OS X is not an exact implementation of the FreeBSD environment. However, someone with a good amount of knowledge should be able to figure out how and where to install the driver files properly, no? I think/hope so.

I'm willing to work at this. I'd love to get my ixTV working natively under OS X.

Bill, anyone, let me know if this seems feasible.

Take care.

Matt Rosen

>>I was wondering if any work is being done on making
>>drivers available for windows xp or OS X. I'm using OS
>>X on my mac and XP on my pc so I'm at a loss. Any
>>information would be appreciated.
>
>Nothing being done on this end. I've had offers from
>others to help me work on updating drivers, but
>unfortunately the source code for these drivers is
>unavailable, and required for porting the drivers to
>new OS's.
>
>As for Win XP, I have no idea about compatibility.
>Have you tried the older windows drivers in XP?
>Compatibility experience from anyone would be nice.
>
>Bill

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