[mpeg2] Re: BMK (KFIR) board under Linux

[Torsten Howard <torsten@inetw.net>]

Unless you setup /etc/modules.conf to autoload
the modules, you must go to the driver directory
and do 

make insmod

each time after you reboot/powerup.

Torsten

On Tuesday 21 August 2001 07:48 am, you wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
>     I'm a bit new with Linux and at the moment I'm
> having some troubles to get the board working
> properly. Yesterday, after following all the stages
> described by Ralph I managed to install the drivers
> and the modules on a SUSE distribution. When I tried
> to redirect the /dev/video to a file I wrote something
> like
>
> >cat /dev/video > test.mpg
>
> Pressing CTRL-C I got the file test.mpg with some
> data, that I tested and it was working fine (very good
> quality of sound and image).
>
>     When today I turned on the computer again to go on
> with my tests I found that the command line with  "cat
> /dev/video > test.mpg" generates a file of 0 bytes
> (empty), I haven't changed anything on Linux, I've
> tested all the conexions and even tested the board on
> Windows NT, which works fine. If I try to do the
> driver installation process nothing changes, in fact
> there is an error in the last makefile (make insmod)
> because obviously the modules are already installed.
>
>     I don't know what's going on but I'm afraid it has
> something to do with my little knowledge of Linux, I
> would strongly appreciate some advice.
> Thanks.
> Jose Manuel.
>
>
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