[linux-dvb] Re: Galaxis DVB-S (sourcetree fix?)

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Hi,

please use the CVS source tree, there these ID's are already added. I'll 
package up a new tarball for the website next week or so.

Holger


Andy Knuts wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to install the latest DVB-S driver 0.9.4 on my Galaxis DVB-S card
> today but that didn't work as i was expecting and i had to make the
> folowing modifications to the source tree:
> 
> First of all it didn't compile because it was trying to access a symbol
> called 'busy' from the structure video device which doesn't exist any
> longer as from kernel 2.4.19. So i just commented out line number 3504 in
> dvb.c which said 'busy:           0,'. (i suppose it's not used anywhere
> else in the dvb source anyway). After that it compiled without any errors.
> 
> Then after doing make insmod i saw this in dmesg:
> 
> | i2c-core.o: adapter saa7146(1) registered as adapter 0.
> | dvb: no dvb(s) found!
> 
> Weird error as saa7146_core.o first said it found an saa7146 card.
> So after investigating into this problem i noticed that there was no
> matching ID for my Galaxis DVB card inside the function get_card_type()
> from dvb.c
> So i had to add my card's ID to that function to have it return either
> DVB_CARD_TT_SIEMENS or DVB_CARD_TT_BUDGET.
> 
> Now my real question is which of these should be returned for the Galaxis
> cards? I was not sure which of them it was supposed to return but it
> worked with DVB_CARD_TT_SIEMENS (which i tried because it's returned for
> hauppage cards too and my card works with hauppage drivers too under
> windows)
> 
> My Galaxis DVB-s card has this ID's:
> 
> | dev->subsystem_vendor = 0x13C2
> | dev->subsystem_device = 0x1002
> 
> Could anyone tell me if i did right by having it return
> DVB_CARD_TT_SIEMENS or should it have been DVB_CARD_TT_BUDGET for this
> galaxis card ?
> 
> With kind regards,
> Andy Knuts
> SygmaNet
> ____________________________________________
> Andy Knuts - Webhosting & Design SygmaNET -
> http://www.sygmanet.be
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 



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