[vdr] Re: DXR3

[Laurence Abbott <laz@club-burniston.co.uk>]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:28, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> Tony Houghton wrote:
> > I should have asked myself why anyone would want to give one of these
> > away if they're so good. Has anyone actually got one of these working
> > (at all, let alone with VDR) with a 2.6 kernel? Or even a 2.4 kernel,
> > because with the last card I tried, I even tried that with the "stable"
> > driver. For 2.6 you have to use the CVS version.
> 
> With mandrake (I'm using 10.0 currently) it works right out of the box
> (microcode and utilities are in the rpm package "em8300"), with kernel
> 2.6. In fact the driver in mandrake works better for me than the cvs
> version.

Works fine for me! I'm using a 2.6 kernel, cvs drivers, vdr-1.3.15, and
the current dxr3 plugin (0.2.3-pre2, I think it is).

When I was originally setting this up, I was trying to get it to work as
an overlay, i.e. on a monitor. That never really worked! The older
em8300 drivers I tried required grabbing the microcode from the a
windross driver but there were two possibilities and I could never
really work out which one to use!

The cvs driver has the microcode in the modules directory: em8300.uc

You may need a bit of a tweak of the module parameters but I don't
really remember that being too bad.

Good luck!

Cheers,

Laz