Robin Marlow wrote:
Ok, I started with kernel 2.4.21mdk91. When I applied the bttv patch, (manually as it wouldn't play nicely) everything compiled fine - but it wouldn't boot. When depmod ran it caused a stack trace to be produced & then hung irreversibly when loading another module. So i thought i should use the version of bttv that the patch was written for (bttv-0.9.4) But it says that to use this you have to use a specially patched kernel 2.4.20-kraxel. So i got this kernel, patched it to Kraxel & compiled it and the modules. Then compiled the patched bttv module. This installed too... i was almost getting optimistic!
looks good so far.
what download package are you talking about? dvb-kernel is in CVS only. You only need the DVB/-tree (or the tarball) for the test applications only.So i made the dvb-kernel from the download package, but the make install
didn't do anything (there isn't a make install). so i made the cvs version & that did install. I copied the sandy heath (i live in london & it sounded the closest) channel.config to the .szap directory, but it still complained
you have to copy the config file to ~/.tzap/channels.conf.
have you run the makedev.napi script? This is necessairy for non-devfs systems. You find this script in the driver directory in the DVB/-tree. However, to avoid such troubles in the future I'd everybody recommend to use devfs.about there being no /dev/dvb something. So i thought that it wasn't loading the modules correctly & out of desparation added what i found in the modules.conf in the linuxtv-dvb package to mine.