I am having similar problems, but found this site via the http://www.freeplaytv.org site and I think it already has the kernels built and rpm'd, also lots of other goodies needed. The mythtv "checking prerequisites section" of the documentation referred me to http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/topic/multimedia/ which seems to have a pretty good inventory of prebuilt kernels, bttv, etc in rpm format for Redhat 9. I just stumbled across this so I am going to download and try to get them running myself. Good Luck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kelsay" <bkelsay@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 3:44 PM Subject: Re: help install bt878 under RH9 > Alex wrote: > > This is the story: > > I install the Red Hat 9 with 2.4.20-8 kernel version. > > I have also in an PCI slot a TV Tuner (KWorld) base > > on > > BT878 chip set and the tuner is Philips PAL. > > > > I download the last version of BT driver > > http://bytesex.org/bttv/bttv-0.9.11.tar.gz. > > I read the following on the site : > > > > "The RH9 kernel for example doesn't work without some > > tweaks in the drivers source code because they > > backported lot of stuff from 2.5.x and broke source > > level compatibility with vanilla 2.4.x kernels." > > > > Can someone help me to install the driver? > > I went through basically the same thing you are describing. I loaded RH > 9 and tried to just compile and install the bttv modules and then insmod > or modprobe the card, but this didn't work. > > What I did is install RH 9, get all the updates to the installed > packages from Red Hat via demo account for up2date. Get the latest > kernel and kernel headers (very important to get the kernel headers) > from up2date and then reboot so you are running the new kernel (on my > system GRUB is automatically updated to reference the new kernel and > boot to it). Then get the latest stable bttv drivers source and compile > it versus the new kernel headers (should be in > /usr/src/linux/linux-2.4.xx). Recompile the current kernel 2.4.xx and > make sure that you enable bttv loading as a module (you may use make > menuconfig or make xconfig). You should be able to save the newly > compiled kernel as 2.4.xx-xx-bttv as a name so you can identfy it. I > just replaced the kernel of the same name in the same directory it was > in. Probably not the safest thing to do, but I had other kernels to > fall back on. Anyway, reboot so that now you are running on the > recompiled kernel and then modprobe bttv and at that point my card was > detected and I had to jump through some other hoops to get xawtv > installed and working. > > Good Luck, > Brian > > -- > " * Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc. * Neither Greg Page nor > Caldera, Inc. admit liability nor provide * warranty for any of this > software. This material is provided * "AS-IS" and at no charge." > > Hmmm. > > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list >
