On 24 Jun 2003, Etienne Beaule wrote: > Hello all, > > I installed the latest Red Hat on it (the linux PPC I use is very > similar to Red Hat). I got pretty much everything working except the > saa7134 card. I tried recompiling the current RH kernel with v4l2 patch > applied and I got stuck trying to use it (coudn't figure out what that > *.img file is for grub and the one I tried to make didn't work). I then mkinitrd. The file name is supplied by you, though the convention is initrd-<kernelver>.img, RH looks for them in /boot. I usually use 'make rpm' when building patched kernels. In RH 8 & 9, you need to edit the Makefile to use rpmbuild and not just rpm. Just patch v4l2 into your kernel. You should build the saa7134 modules separately. 'make install' for the saa7134 modules put them in /lib/modules/<uname -r>/v4l2, which is not the default place to search for modules. I copy them into /lib/modules/<uname -r>/kernel/drivers/media/video (I think that's the path) You must compile the kernel and your modules with the exact same compile tools, otherwise strange errors will occur (kernel panic, etc.) T.C. ---- Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) School of Computer Science, Univ. Science Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3888 x 3617 NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-E Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 Internet: tcwan@xxxxxxxxx Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcw_gpg-20030322.asc F'print : DCF2 B9B2 FA4D 1208 AD59 14CA 9A8F F54D B2C4 63C7
