Re: [SLUG] DVB card suggestions [Was: Digital TV Tuner Cards On Linux?]

[O Plameras <oscarp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Gregory wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 14:23 +1100, Michael Fox wrote:
>  
>
> > Appreciated.
> >
> > I might get the divico fusion one mentioned around here... and the
> > price might not be as cheap as the Twinhan, but hey.. if it works I
> > don't mind if its a little more.
> >    
>
> Be careful with this. I've got one, and it's non-trivial to get going
> (well, it's non-trivial to get going if you want to keep the guarantees
> your package manager gives you about the authenticity of the code on
> your system. It's apparently straightforward otherwise). I did try to
> make a set of packages to make it work, but it uses a different version
> of the v4l2 code than what is in the mainline kernel (at least as of
> 2.6.9. I'm not sure about now). 

This is fixed by running 'DVB-Build.sh remove-symbols'. This particular 
script
reconciles Version Number conflicts.

C Pascoe has tested these drivers on stock kernel 2.6.9.

I have tested it on 2.6.9-1.667 and 2.6.10-rc3.

> Unless you're more of a kernel build
> ninja than I am, you won't be able to do a clean build of it and you'll
> need to use the rather dodgy method described on Chris Pascoe's website,
> which involves mangling the module dependencies file.
>
>  

On Fedora Core 2 or 3 the default kernel has all the pre-requisite 
requirements
for 'CONFIGS'. So, no need to re-compile the kernel.