[mythtv-users] pchdtv3000 compile help

[Mike Isely]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Jarod Wilson wrote:

> On Sunday 13 March 2005 19:46, Mike Isely wrote:
> > The release 1.6 pchdtv drivers are known not to compile properly against
> > the 2.6.10 kernel release.  There were internal changes in video4linux
> > there that break the driver.
> >
> > Check out this thread for a version of the 1.6 driver release that has
> > been ported forward to work in the 2.6.10 kernel:
> >
> >   http://www.pchdtv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=415
> >
> > I haven't tried yet to carry the port forward to 2.6.11.  In addition, the
> > pchdtv folks now are supporting a DVB based driver going forward from this
> > point, so you may want to consider it instead.
>
> And note that the bttv v4l driver built from the pcHDTV 2.0 tarball never
> registers the digital side of the card for me, which I suppose may be because
> I'm not running a 2.6.11 kernel (which the wiki says is needed), but the docs
> say everything should work with the latest FC3 kernels... Now, the dvb driver
> does work with my HD-2000, but I decided to go back to the v4l driver for
> now.
>
> Anyhow, since I like pain and suffering, I took the latest FC3 kernel as a
> base, added the latest 2.6.10 kraxel patch, some of my own patches and that
> 1.6-based patch of yours found at the link above, mushed it all together,
> fixed a few rejects, and built a kernel rpm out of it all. The resulting
> kernel's bttv driver works beautifully with my HD-2000.

Cool.  I don't have an HD-2000 so I wasn't able to test that case.

  -Mike


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