Free driver software for linux

If you want to receive IP over Satellite and DVB on your Linux machine, you might want to buy one of these DVB PCI cards (see also the developer section for a list of card revisions supported by our driver):

* The Siemens DVB card - this is the card we developped the Linux drivers for (thanks to the Siemens guys). The Siemens DVB-S card is identical to the cards built by Hauppauge, Technotrend, Galaxis and Katek. We also support the Siemens DVB-C card.
* Hauppauge has released a low budget version of the Siemens card. The WinTV Nova has no MPEG2 decoder chip anymore. From driver version 0.8 on we support this card - you should be able to get a complete transport stream from it.
* Technotrend has developed a DVB-T card and our driver also supports this card (both, the version with DSP and the Nova card). Most DVB-S cards (except for Version 1.6) are also supported by us. The Technotrend DVB-C card (at least the newer version 2.1) is currently not working with our driver.
* The Telemann Skymedia card - never seen that card, but there are Linux drivers
* The Pentamedia cards - Linux drivers for a IP-over-Satellite card.

Logitech MediaPlay Cordless Mouse USB Linux driver is a driver for the USB Logitech MediaPlay mice.

The main purpose of this page is to share my experiences with Logitech MediaPlay Cordless Mouse. Here you will find all the necessary information to put your MediaPlay mouse fully operational.

When i bought this mouse, the first thing that crossed my mind was the incompatibility between all this multimedia buttons and Linux. After googling about it, I noticed there was no useful information regarding this mouse, so I decided to put myself at work.

Did my reseach, and after a few hours browsing kernel source files, reading some usb documentation, code changes, I was able to make the bit map for MediaPlay multimedia keys.

The next step was to change usbmouse.c by Vojtech Pavlik allowing it to get and export mouse extra keys as keyboard entries using kernel input core support.

The intel-wings project is a Linux driver for the Intel Wireless Series of input devices.
Somehow, Intel managed to avoid using the USB Human Interface Device standards with their wireless gamepads.
All other USB gamepads work out-of-the-box: plug it in, and the computer knows that it has an X axis, a Y axis, and six buttons. Not Intel. Thats where intel-wings comes in.
Wireless Series?
Yes, youve seen them. Everyone hated them. The keyboards were of poor manufacturing, the mice eat batteries like theres no tomorrow, and the whole system was ridiculously expensive. They were killed off by Intel several years ago -- after hitting the shelves and getting a lukewarm reaction, manufacturing was stopped, and support was terminated 18 months after release.
All of these complaints are valid. On the other hand, when used infrequently, the mice last a few months, and work great on a glass coffee table in my living room. (A newer wireless optical mouse wouldnt work.)
The gamepads are actually pretty fun, in my opinion: you can have a whole bunch of them attached to one base station, which is great for playing old console games with friends. You can get a complete set of devices for $10 on eBay, and with Linux-based PVRs becoming increasingly common, I find my devices to be a great addition to my living room.
Note that I wouldnt recommend the mice to anyone that uses their computer on a regular basis, but its easier for navigating menus than a remote control. In my opinion, the Intel Wireless Series devices on Linux PVRs are the way to go.
Enhancements:
- Preliminary keyboard support was added.
- The Intel wireless keyboards are at least partially functional.

Lexmark Z11 printer driver for Linux is a Linux printer driver/filter for the Lexmark Z11 printer, supporting color and b/w printing, variable page size and more.
The driver lz11-V2 is an improvement of the lz11 driver, which was first released in 2002. Additionally to the features of lz11, which include variable page sizes and ink saving, the lz11-V2 version comes with a backward compatibility mode for the filters "cZ11" and "cZ11somsom". While the cZ11 filter is emulated in an improved way, which helps to save ink and takes away the grayish look of color prints, the cZ11somsom emulation only supports the basic properties (as InkType and DitherPPI). Ink weighting is not included, but merely needed, because of a new pixel placement algorithm for black and color ink.
"Highlights" of the lz11-V2 are: further improved printing speed for black ink and a tool to align the skew of the black ink cartridge. A smooth-dithering algorithm for black and color prints was added. The driver comes with an improved set of installation and utility scripts that support automatic installation-option-checking, testpage-printing, black-ink-adjustment, automatic installation of foomatic-xml-files as well as automatic installation of the included PPD files for CUPS and PPR. For backward compatibility reason the GhostScript device emulation (as "hpdj", "epsonc", ...) is still included, but should never be offered on "modern" Linux installations.
The original driver-code "cZ11" was written by Christian Kornblum in 2001 (this code still is the backbone of this filter).
WARNING:This driver is known not to work with the Z31 and Z51. In fact, it is known to hose those printers flash in some circumstances!
Enhancements:
- The installer can be called by ./lz11.install --debug, which will produce BMP files instead of paper prints (for test)
- Now the cups-restart is done also properly for Debian and Gentoo
- An installed Z11 printer-queue (PPD) and its options are updated automatically during installation
- The print-job cancelling is now appropriate for hotplug generated devices. Printer "hick-ups" on a resume are prevented
- The print-job cancelling is shown automatically in an "xterm"
- some smaller bug fixes

MyHD/TL880 Linux Driver is a Linux driver for TL880-based HDTV tuner cards.

This is the development page for the Linux driver for the MyHD and other HDTV tuners based on the TL880 chip.

The driver is in early development stage right now, and we need lots of help testing. If you own any TL880-based card, please download the driver using the Downloads link at the left.

Keep in mind that the driver does not support video capture or playback at this time, but we need as many people as possible to run tests to help the driver move along.

Card Terminal Driver Library aims to add support for smart card and magnetic stripe card terminals, such as the IBM 4779, to Linux, and other Posix compatible systems.

Things that should get done:

1) Add error checking to all routines (except read/write/open/close4779: those already include error checking and reporting.

2) Add to the examples in the examples directory.

3) Work on more abstract functions so we can integrate this with libcardterm (eventually). These include (amoung others):

InsertCard()
EjectCard()
ReadTrack()
SmartComm()
WriteDispAtPos()
GetPIN()
GetKeys()

4) Write README and INSTALL files

ESE Key Daemon is a multimedia keyboard driver for Linux. No kernel patch is needed.
ESE Key Daemon is a userspace program which pools /dev/input/event interfaces for incoming keyboard key presses.
Enhancements:
- A bug in the configuration file handling routines was fixed.