The dxr2-driver Project is an effort to create/maintain Linux Platform drivers for the Creative dxr2 DVD Decoder Card.

The original dxr2 Linux drivers were written by Andrew de Quincey and Lucien Murray-Pitts. However, when the drivers became pretty stable development halted dramatically. The dxr2 drivers went several months without any development, and were becoming "out of date" with the Newer linux kernel's and bug were arising. This prompted the other users who were activly using there dxr2 on Linux to continue where the original developers left off, and as a side effect of this, the dxr2 Resource Center was created.

• Tue Mar 19 18:20:00 MST 2002 by
  Scott Bucholtz Released new driver (version 1.0.4).
• Wed Feb 20 18:20:00 MST 2002 by
  Scott Bucholtz Added the libdvdread stuff.
• Sun Feb 10 23:56:32 EST 2002 by
  Josh Steele Page is up and running now. All the content that I can think of at the current time is on the main index.html page now. If you have anymore questions, feel free to ask.
• Thurs Feb 7 15:35:21 EST 2002 by
  Josh Steele Still working on getting this page situated. Hang in there till then.

Before we give you a list of files that you need to download to get the dxr2 card working on your linux machine, we suggest that you take a look at the dxr2install project which will help you get your card working in no time.

The following files are REQUIRED for you to get the dxr2 card working properly.

• DVD12.UX -- The DVD12.UX is the firware file that is loaded into the dxr2 card when needed. It was provided to us by Creative and is based largely on the Windows driver for the dxr2.
• The hacked version of libdvdread -- The original libdvdread is part of the Ogle project. If you already have libdvdread, the patch can be found here.
• Dxr2 Linux Driver -- The current version of the dxr2-driver is 1.0.4
  • Source Tarball
  • Other Releases

We have acquired the actual documentation for the chipset's included on the dxr2 card. All of these documents are in PDF format, and are packaged in a standard *.zip file.

ANP82 Chipset
BT865 Chipset
PCM1723 Chipset
VXP524 Chipset

dxr2-driver patch archives

Now and then a patch is submitted to the dxr2-driver that helps improve the quality of the software, or sometimes it just breaks the driver. Either way, we like to keep an archive of all the patches submitted. Some of these patches have made it into the CVS repostory, some have not. Its not advised that you use any of these patches unless you KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. Chances are that you will do more harm than good.

There are two main mailing lists for the dxr2-driver project. The mailing lists is where all of the activity about the dxr2-driver project takes place, as well as discussions about other projects.

• dxr2-devel
  This is the main development mailing list for the dxr2-driver and other projects. Anyone who wishes to follow the development issue's of the driver, or is having some kind of problem with the driver should read the documentation first, then email this mailing list for support.
• dxr2-announce
  If the dxr2 card works in your machine, and really don't care about receiving daily emails about development, support issue's then you should sign up for dxr2-announce. This list is a VERY low traffic mailing list that is used only to announce new releases, updates, important information, etc. regarding the dxr2-driver and related projects.