[mythtv-users] Error when compiling ITVTV driver

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Saturday, Oct 25, 2003, at 20:10 US/Pacific, Romel Llarena wrote:

> Running the 2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at kernal
>
> Since then, I've been getting some unexpected results
> when trying to configure VMWARE. No biggie, I'll call
> VMWARE support once MythTV is done. Anyhow, I did the
> apt-get command in Jarod's documentation for the IVTV
> driver, but after several fresh installs I can't get X
> to stop crashing after the install.

Are you sure you have the hauppauge firmware in place? Axel had to pull 
it from the rpms, and it doesn't get installed when you do a source 
install, so you have to manually fetch the Windows drivers and extract 
the firmware from them (ivtv includes a script to do this).

> One suggestion
> that I found on Gossamer was to do a manual compile.
> Followed the docs on mythtv.org:
>
> $ cd ~/ivtv/ivtv/driver
> $ make
> Makefile:8: /usr/src/linux/.config: No such file or
> directory
> make: *** No rule to make target
> `/usr/src/linux/.config'.  Stop.
>
> My searches on Google indicate that I didn't have the
> source installed properly and to run "make install" in
> the /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-6/ as rpm -ivh --force
> kernel-2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at.src.rpm wasn't enough.

It isn't the .src.rpm you need, it is the 
kernel-source-2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at.i386.rpm file that you need to 
install.

> After answering something like 200 questions, and
> running "make dep", I rebooted in hopes of fixing the
> compile problem. No luck. I think the solution to my
> IVTV compile problem will also fix my VMWARE problem.

Nope, I don't think you have the right kernel source in place, which 
would also prevent the VMware drivers from building. They need the 
kernel source also.

Download and install kernel-source-2.4.20-20_29.rh9.at.i386.rpm, and 
then "cp /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs/kernel-2.4.20-athlon.config 
/usr/src/linux-2.4/.config".

No make dep, make install, etc., required.

Oh, and a new guide addressing some of these issues is now posted.

--Jarod

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE

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