[mythtv-users] Highly confused - tuner type=39 ??

Mark fairlane at springcom.com
Sun Nov 7 03:22:34 UTC 2004


John Andersen wrote:

>On Saturday 06 November 2004 15:46, Mark wrote:
>  
>
>>The patch is available on chris' website,
>>and I've successfully patched the kernel tuner module, but haven't
>>succesfully compiled and installed the new module yet.  I just last
>>night fubar'd my Slackware install by compiling all modules and
>>installing them without re-compiling my kernel.
>>
>>IE, I did:  make modules && modules_install
>>
>>which screwed up all my modules so that nothing is working anymore.  I'm
>>not sure what the right procedure for installing the single module is,
>>but I'm sure that it IS possible without recompiling a kernel.   If you
>>figure out what it is, let me know.  I'll be reinstalling Slackware
>>again tonight.
>>    
>>
>
>I'm glad you posted that, because on the advice of Joel Merrick 
><joel at servicestyle.com> I was about to do the same thing.
>
>I've patched, but not yet compiled - looking for a way to 
>compile JUST one module.
>
>But In the past, I have done make modules and install and it
>worked fine (just took a long time).  
>
>I wonder if you missed the make cloneconfig step?  
>Theoretically, with a recent and correct config you should be
>able to recompile modules with no problem.  
>
>
>  
>
I didn't do make cloneconfig.  Not familiar with that one.  It was a 
stock Slack 10.0
install, I hadn't even recompiled yet.  I tend to recompile only if 
absolutely necessary.

If you try it, let me know how it goes. 

Mark


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