On wo, 2007-10-03 at 21:28 -0700, Steve MacLaren wrote: > I think what the original poster (and several others of us) are > wondering is, how exactly does one "use the 0.10 driver from > ivtvdriver.org"?
You will need the kernel headers/source matching you running kernel version *exactly*! This is important as this can and probably will make it fail to load the ivtv module. For a 2.6.21 or less kernel the best place to go is the general howto on the wiki [1]. If you have a linux 2.6.22 kernel get [2] and follow the instructions from the INSTALL file (basically: make all && make install). This should overwrite all the old v4l/dvb modules which came with the kernel originally. Reload the modules or re-boot and you should be done. If you have specific question let us know. > I have on a number of occasions tried to install 0.10.x from > ivtvdriver.org, only to have Ubuntu continue to load the old 0.10.1 > driver. You will have to create a custom kernel or delete the original module/uninstall ivtv. I would go for deleting/uninstalling the original module for now. > Is it necessary to build a custom kernel in order to take advantage of > the DMA fixes? No but you will understand better how building modules/kernels is done and It *will* be fun ;-) As a general instruction for source packages, read the README and INSTALL files. Both the v4l/dvb repo and ivtv-0.10 are pretty well documented how to build them. Greets Sander [1] http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto [2] http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.bz2 _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
