Digital TV tuner support

chaumurky ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed Aug 24 01:29:15 UTC 2005


David Collett Wrote: 
> Why recompile the whole kernel?

> You can build the dvb modules (dvb-kernel) on its own, all you need is

> the headers package for your kernel (eg. linux-headers-2.6.10-5-686 or

> whatever).

> 

> Depending on your tuner card (eg. if it is bttv based), you may also

> need a more recent video4linux "v4l" subsytem than that in 2.6.10.

> This too can easily be built outside the kernel.

> 

> Details on how to do this should be available from the websites of

> these projects. Let me know if you have trouble.

> 

> Dave

> 

> 

> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:05:51 +0000, George Wright

> <fiddlesticks at gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:12:52 +0000, Lyndon Drake <lyndon at arotau.com>
> wrote:

> > > I have a Hauppauge Nova-T digital PCI TV tuner card.  This card
> does not

> > > currently work in Ubuntu (warty or hoary), as it requires patches
> from

> > > the linux-dvb project [1].  The 2.6.11 image in hoary locks up on
> my pc,

> > > but apparently even that kernel needs additional patches for the

> > > relevant driver to work (it's the cx88 driver).  I tried and failed
> to

> > > get the linux-dvb patches to merge with the ubuntu kernel source

> > > package.

> > 

> > HI.

> > 

> > I've built 2.6.10 with inotify and recent(ish) cx88-dvb patches

> > applied. The kernel is here

> > 

> > http://klee.fred.dexy.org/~geow/kernel-2.6.10.inotify+cx88-dvb.deb

> > 

> > I'm not sure how it works with the hal/ gnome-volume-manager stuff,

> > but it works for my K-world DVB-T card, and I think the relevant

> > cx88-dvb patches are good for you too.

> > 

> > Let me know how you get on

> > 

> > Regards

> > 

> > George

> > 

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I'm trying that now but when I try:



mainaccount at ERIK:/usr/src/dvb-kernel/build-2.6$ sudo make

Makefile:13: /lib/modules/2.6.11-1-686/source/.config: No such file or
directory

make: *** No rule to make target
`/lib/modules/2.6.11-1-686/source/.config'.  Stop.



What am I missing? I have the source and headers installed...



EDIT doing 'ln -s /usr/src/linux /lib/modules/2.6.11-1-686/source' got
past it but now make tells me "compiling dvb-kernel works only with
linux version greater or equal 2.6.13-rc1"!!



Just can't win...


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chaumurky




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