On Thursday 04 October 2007 12:17:05 Sander Sweers wrote:
> 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
And just for the record: I intend to release ivtv-0.10.6 this weekend.
Should have done that earlier, but Real Life (tm) interfered :-)
Regards,
Hans
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