Re: help install bt878 under RH9

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Jarod,
This was really helpful. I picked up the latest bttv and kernel RPMs from atrpms and they work quite well. (mencoder/RH9/bt878)

Thanks!

Phil

Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

On Monday, Sep 8, 2003, at 09:00 US/Pacific, someone wrote:

Hi,
  First try to work in default bttv driver bttv-0.9.91 or bttv-0.9.96
I suppose (kernel 2.4.20-8). load tuner and bttv driver module.


The default bttv driver in Red Hat Linux 9 is a 0.7.x series. On my fully up2date'd system, the version is 0.7.104. Definitely NOT 0.9.x though, because that is a v4l2-only driver, and the stock Red Hat kernels are not patched for v4l2.

If u want to upgrade default bttv driver to bttv-0.9.11. Then
1) download vanilla kernel from www.kernel.org (2.4.20)


Or, download a kernel from http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/kernel/ that is essentially a stock Red Hat kernel with a few little patches added in, most notably v4l2.

2) apply the following patch
"http://bytesex.org/patches/2.4.20/patch-2.4.20-kraxel.gz"; to the
kernel source.


Again, not needed if you use an ATrpms pre-patched kernel.

3) recompile the kernel. (problem will occur when u apply the patch to
the default kernel source. so u have to download new kernel source
2.4.20 from kernel.org)


Also not necessary. There is also a bttv 0.9.11 rpm to go with the kernel available from ATrpms. Look here: http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/dist/rh9/bttv/

Also, as evidenced by the ATrpms kernels, it is possible to patch Red Hat's source for use with v4l2, it is just a bit trickier than patching kernel.org source, due to all of Red Hat's back-ports. You might peek at the various spec files on ATrpms to get an idea of what has to be done to patch stock Red Hat source with v4l2. Personally, I just use the ATrpms kernels and drivers, and I've got both an AVerTV Studio card running perfectly with bttv 0.9.11, and a WinTV PVR-250 running perfectly w/the ivtv driver, both drivers from ATrpms.

Or, if you'd rather stick to source, go that route, as described.

--Jarod






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