[linux-dvb] Re: how-to for newbies

[Richard Walker <runnyhunny@ntlworld.com>]

On Sunday, April 13, 2003, at 12:39  am, Alex Woods wrote:

> Ergh, distros packaging pre-release kernels again!
I must say... I tried using the DVB and DVB-kernel code with  
Debian-supplied kernels and it was hopeless.  I'd imagine the same  
applies to Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE and co.

I gave in and got myself a nice fresh kernel from kernel.org.  It just  
worked!

> I'm afraid that I have no experience with the bttv stuff myself, but  
> so far as
> I'm aware, all you need is a stock kernel and the patches from  
> dvb-kernel
> cvs.
A standard 2.4 kernel with the Video4Linux2 patches, *or* a standard  
2.5 kernel (which includes V4L2 by default), is a good start.  With  
that working, just download, patch, and install bttv 0.9.4.

From here onwards, it's just a case of using dvb-kernel, like everyone  
else does.

> I did come across this thread when trying to find out what a nebula was
> though:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF- 
> 8&threadm=20030326190937779%2B0000%40news.cis.dfn.de&rnum=1&prev=/ 
> groups%3Fq%3Ddigitv%2Blinux%2Bnebula%2Bbttv%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUT 
> F-8%26selm%3D20030326190937779%252B0000%2540news.cis.dfn.de%26rnum%3D1
Woo... that's me!  :)

> The nebula seems to be a terrestrial card, so you'll want to be using  
> tzap
> rather than szap once you actually have some devices to work with.
I've never used the 'zap' applications.  I just test with dvbtune and  
dvbstream.



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