[linux-dvb] Re: Which distro works out of the box for DVB?

["Otto J. Makela" <om@iki.fi>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 23:13:43 +0200, Vladi wrote:

> Me and my 9 year old son ran into known problem trying to install a
> driver for DVB: makefile: 104: /usr/src/linux/Rules.make: No such
> file or directory...  We made it that far but offered solution (to
> do something naughty to kernel :) "get a fresh kernel, configure,
> build and install it properly " is beyond our abilities at the
> moment. Hence - the question:
> 
> Perhaps someone knows for sure a particular version of a particular
> flavour which would allow us to install it without a fuss.
> 
> We have tried RH8 and RH9 with linux-dvb.2003-02-16 and
> linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0-pre2.  We have dedicated box with WinDVB-S 1.6

This is what has worked for me for now (I've been too busy to really
test it out, but I got linuxtv working): Hauppage DVB-C card, RH8 with
kernel-utils-2.4-8.13, kernel-2.4.18-14 and kernel-source-2.4.18-14.

Check that your /usr/src has a link named "linux" to the current kernel
directory (I of course have it pointing to "linux-2.4.18-14").

Go to /usr/src/linux and type "make menuconfig".  You will get a kernel
configuration menu.  Immediately select "exit" and save your (unchanged)
kernel setup -- turns out the module build system expects to see the
configuration file, even if it is the standard, unchanged one.

Now go to whereever you've unpacked the archive, go to the driver
subdirectory and type "make insmod" to build modules and to install them
into the running kernel.  This got the kernel stuff built and installed
for me.

Then go up one directory, type "make" and look at what kind of tuning
software you need to run for your card type (you didn't say what it
is), configure it, start for example "xawtv" (with a default input
of DVB), and then tune to your favorite station to get a picture.

Once you know your hardware works, you can look at VDR or other such
software (which I haven't done yet, too busy...)

Any help?
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