OK I have looked under every rock I can think off, I can't get my Cadet FM
tuner card to work. Russel Kroll has a web page at:
http://linux.blackhawke.net/cadet.html
He says that he has done a v4l driver. So how do I get it to go? I looked at
the official v4l homepage at:
http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml
That site has the same API document that is in the docs that Mandrake
installed on my hard drive from the CD-ROM (file:/usr/doc/
kernel-doc-2.2.9/video4linux/API.html). It will be need if I ever get the
card going and I want to do some programming but it has little to do with
setting up the card.
I found the videodev.o and radio-cadet.o in the /lib/modules/... branch of my
hard drive. So the good people at Linux-Mandrake have compiled it for me.
I ran:
/sbin/modprobe videodev.o
/sbin/modprobe radio-cadet.o
when I /sbin/lsmod they seem to be loaded and working. The problem is
I still don't have a /dev/radio so I can't get Ktuner to work.
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How do I create a char device with a minor range between 64-127 (major range
unknown) as /dev/radio that is associated with the v4l driver radio-cadet?
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Why does all of the v4l web sites leave this step out? I guess they all
assume that you are rolling your own with bttv, a makefile, and a TV tuner
card. I am almost there I just need a /dev/radio entry. How do you do that?
PBen
P.S. Would this have worked better if I had the card back when I installed
Mandrake or would it still failed?
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Two more good sites are:
http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
Bookmark this site if you ever want to do anything with Linux sound:
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
