On Saturday 12 Apr 2003 11:30 pm, 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! >
Ergh, distros packaging pre-release kernels again! I'm afraid that I have no experience with the bttv stuff myself, but so far as I'm aware, all you need is a stock kernel and the patches from dvb-kernel cvs. I did come across this thread when trying to find out what a nebula was though: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=20030326190937779%2B0000%40news.cis.dfn.de&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Ddigitv%2Blinux%2Bnebula%2Bbttv%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D20030326190937779%252B0000%2540news.cis.dfn.de%26rnum%3D1 > 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 about there being no /dev/dvb something. So i thought that it Are you using devfs? If not, you'll have to create some device nodes. Have a look at the INSTALL doc in linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0-pre2 for how to do this. If you are using devfs, the card isn't being detected properly. Does anything appear in /var/log/kern.log when you insmod the modules? The modules are getting insmoded aren't they (lsmod to see loaded modules)?? The nebula seems to be a terrestrial card, so you'll want to be using tzap rather than szap once you actually have some devices to work with. > wasn't loading the modules correctly & out of desparation added what i > found in the modules.conf in the linuxtv-dvb package to mine. Then Oops, not the best idea to add them manually. Check out your /etc/modules.conf, it'll say something like: ### This file is automatically generated by modules-update # # Please do not edit this file directly. If you want to change or add # anything please take a look at the files in /etc/modules.d and read # the manpage for modules-update. Probably says to take a look at files somewhere else for you though. Anyway, copy the modules.conf from linuxtv to /etc/modules.d/dvb (or whatever dir it says for you) and run modules-update (or update-modules or whatever it says for you). > rebooted. Everything worked until it hung dead loading X. When i gave up > and had a beer & wrote my angry email. > Not sure why X is dead, unless you forgot rebuild a graphics card driver when you changed kernels. > any idea? i haven't! > After midnight on Saturday? Get real ;) Cheers, Alex -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
