Ok, my kernel is vmlinux-2.6.16-20061110.ydl.2ps3 and as per your instrustion, I looked at config-2.6.16-20061110.ydl.2ps3 and sure enough some of the required settings were not enabled. Specifically
CONFIG_I2C - I2C support CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV - Video For Linux I've looked at several other driver install HOW-To's for other capture cards and found instances where these options are also listed as required and that most stock kernels should already have them enabled by default. I guess YDL is not a "most stock" distro.. These options seem to me major requirements with video capture devices so I'm guessing (and hoping) that these may be at least part of the reason my installation is not working. I found the correct src.rpm in the updates directory, downloaded it and extracted it. I'm surrenly reading all the files in the root of the exracted src.rpm. There are 5 .config files: kernel-2.6.16-ppc.config kernel-2.6.16-ppc64.config kernel-2.6.16-ppc64-ps3.config kernel-2.6.16-ppc64-smp.config kernel-2.6.16-ppc-smp.config a nice email fight between linus and somone about GPL related issues (COPYING.modules), kernel-2.6.spec (Not sure what this is yey. looks like a make file of some sorts), some patch files(linux-2.6-build-nonintconfig.patch, linux-2.6-build-nonintconfig.patch, linux-2.6-squashfs.patch), linux-modules-unsupported, logo_ydl_clut224.ppm and ps3pf_storage_readcd_2.diff. I'm assuming those patch files include changes that have been applied to the source tree but I'll double check them before I do anything. Not sure what the diff file is for but my guess is it has something to do with the CD audio fix in the last update. Getting late here and I'm calling it an night. Perhaps Someone from Terra could chime in and let us know why those options weren't enable in Y 5.0 and even better, some precise help on recompiling the kernel with them... More reading tomorrow night. Thanks > Linux kernels can generate a replica of the config > file used to compile > that kernel in the first place, and it is often in > the same directory > as the kernel used to boot. Keep in mind that I do > not have a YDL here > for referral, so these are just some generic > instructions. > > The first thing I would look for is the directory > where the boot kernel > is, usually /boot. In this directory you will find > one or more kernels > at least. Kernels are often named > vmlinuz-some_version, or > vmlinux-some_version. The matching config file will > be called > config-some_version. In there is all the CONFIG_* > values you want to > know about. > > If that is of no help, you can read the kernel > documentation from the > source package (README) about "make oldconfig" which > should extract the > config info from your current kernel ready for you > to tweak it and > recompile it. You can grab this from the YDL.net > server, it will be > called kernel-some_version.src.rpm. There are > several options for how > to configure the kernel, and instructions on how to > build that kernel > in that README. > > Good luck. Document what works for you so that > others can follow in > your foot steps. > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
