Digital TV tuner support

[David Collett]

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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