On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 08:53:00AM +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote: > Hello. yo!
> The system does not recognize my TV CARD tuner type out of the box, and > xawtv does not work. As I did not know if it was possible to configure > TV CARD with config(8), I tried to compile a kernel, so I started to it isn't poaaible to use config(8) to configure a bktr(4) device, but that would be nice. actually, it would be nicer not to have to do any manual configuration at all ... > bktr(4) man page states the following for setting the card type in the > kernel config file: > > option BKTR_OVERRIDE_CARD=nnn > Select a specific card (overrides autodetection). `nnn' > is set > to one of the names listed and explained below. > > ASKEY_DYNALINK_MAGIC_TVIEW Askey/Dynalink Magic TView > AVER_MEDIA AverMedia > After some minutes of compiling, compilation fails and complains that > ASKEY_DYNALINK_MAGIC_TVIEW is not defined (or something like that, I do not > remember it exactly). > So, I had to add a "CARD" in front of the card type. I changed my > GENERIC.CUSTOM kernel config file like this: > I compiled again the kernel and booted with the new one. Now I can watch > TV with xawtv fine. :-) I would like to see a dmesg from GENERIC. is this really an Askey? it looks like this should be detected by bktr by the PCI vendor ID. > Should I fill a bug report? adding CARD_ in front of all the names will mess up the nice formatting ;) but, yes, this should be clarified. and btw, BKTR_SYSTEM_DEFAULT=BROOKTREE_PAL is the default. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
