On the likes of xandros you might also find you have a horribly broken OS to by going from a 2.4 > 2.6 kernel depending on how device support/module loading etc is handled ......is xandros currently running 2.6.* ?
Dale. On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 19:11, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Saturday 26 June 2004 07:53, Kevin Cosgrove wrote: > > I have just installed Xandros on my computer but cannot get a driver for > > my Winfast VC100 capture card. Can some one help me because I would > > like to continue usinig Linux. I have emailed the suppliers nut no > > luck. They dont have one > > I'm not sure if all this is appropriate for a "A Complete Beginner" but we all > have to jump in somewhere. Note that I do not have either a copy of the > Xandros distribution nor a Winfast VC100 capture card. However I think it is > very possible that the latest Linux kernel has the drivers ready for you. > Xandros _might_ distribute the modules ready compiled. Find out with the > command:- > find /lib -iname 'bttv*' -ls > If you get a line of output then the driver is ready built, and you can > install it using the modprobe or insmod command, if not then you need to > build it. > > Get a copy of the latest kernel archive, linux-2.6.7.tar.bz2 and un-archive > it. Debian and derivatives have their particular ways of doing this. > > If you scan the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv > you will see a line:- > card=114 - Winfast VC100 > Now read the:- > file:/usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/README > <quote> > To use the driver I use the following options, the tuner and pll settings > might be different in your country > > insmod videodev > insmod i2c scan=1 i2c_debug=0 verbose=0 > insmod tuner type=1 debug=0 > insmod bttv pll=1 radio=1 card=17 > </quote> > Fairly obviously you will have to use the correct card number ( card=114 ) and > probably experiment with the other settings. See also the other files in that > directory. > > You might care to reference the home of video4linux > http://linux.bytesex.org/ > in particular:- > http://dl.bytesex.org/patches/2.6.7-1/ > It would almost certainly be a good idea to apply the appropriate patches. > > The new and horrendously comprehensive kernel Building HOWTO is also very > relevent:- > http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/ > > With a lot of reading between the lines and a considerable amount of > experimenting, I think this card could be got to go. > > btw folks, is this sort of thing appropriate for the InstallFest?
