crystalhd-dkms needs updating for recent Ubuntu releases

Asked by Dan Lenski

I have an old Atom-based mini-PC which still runs Ubuntu very nicely thanks to Xfce and the BCM crystalhd decoder card, which allows it to play HD video with low CPU usage.

Ubuntu's crystalhd-dkms package hasn't been updated in 4 years (since precise/12.04). Over at Github, we've updated the driver source to build correctly under more recent kernels. https://github.com/dbason/crystalhd

I'm currently using 82f4477b579b88fc9168b23c6c259598b3678fce with xenial/16.04 and the 4.4.0-21 kernel.

It would be great to release updated crystalhd-dkms packages to make this still-useful hardware more accessible to other Ubuntu users. I am happy to take a crack at updating the source package, but I'm not totally sure what the normal procedure is for community involvement in updating a package like this.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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I suggest you report a bug

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Dan Lenski (lenski) said :
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