<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>----- "Matt Beadon" <matt.beadon@gmail.com> wrote:
<br>> From: "Matt Beadon" <matt.beadon@gmail.com><br>> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 11:46:16 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific<br>> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Puzzled about HVR-2250 install<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">>
<div class="im">> > > I followed some links to LinuxTV but there's a lot of<br>> > > missing context that's throwing me off. </div></div></div></blockquote><div> Which part?<br>> <br>> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">> <div class="im">> Has anybody been through this? Does<br>> > > having a driver available mean compiling a kernel, or a kernel module?<br>> </div>
</div></div></blockquote><br>> </div>No, kernel changes required (assuming you don't mind compiling your own driver).<br>> I've been using the hvr-2250 since it first went "stable". There were some bad hangs initially but the driver has been really stable for months now. Since I went through a few versions before the driver got really solid I've built this driver a few times and it's pretty straightforward.<br>>
<br>> Really quickly:<br>> 1) Download latest driver from <a href="http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb" target="_blank">http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb</a> (choose the bz2 or gz link on the left) or the current one is: "wget <a href="http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.gz" target="_blank">http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.gz</a>"<br>>
2) unpack it somewhere eg in /usr/src/v4l-dvb. "cd /usr/src/v4l-dvb; tar -xzvf tip.tar.gz"<br>> 3) build it. "cd v4l-dvb-XXXXXX; make" where XXXX is the latest version that was unpacked in #2.<br>> 4) become root and install the modules. "sudo make install"<br>>
<br>> Two caveats to this:<br>> a) you must have all the build tools already installed (make, gcc, kernel headers, etc)<br>> b) there was a bug I hit in step #3 in a firedtv module. I didn't need firedtv so I commented it out of the makefile. I can send the file if anyone else needs it but I'm hoping the v4l maintainers have already fixed that bug.<br>>
<br>> This card is well worth the trouble! <br><br>WOOT!<br><br>Got the drivers compiled, and it was recognized on reboot.<br><br>I'm scanning for channels on the second input now.<br><br>Now for posterity, for other Perl and Java feebs like me who didn't grow up with a pet gnu, here is what I had to install to get the compile to work:<br><br>gcc-4.4.2-7.fc12.i686 (includes headers)<br>kernel-PAE-devel.i686 (or kernel-devel.i686) (kernel source, but apparently not 100% but enough)<br>make.i686<br><br>Compile as well as install had to be done as root.<br><br>Next step is to get the IR blaster to work so I can use my old PVR-150 to record from my cable box. That's the only way I'll be able to suck in cable channels now that Comcast is scrambling. Can I finish in time for The Venture Brothers?<br><br>Thanks PAtrick and Matt<br></div></body></html>