> > Subject: > Re: zoran 36120 question > From: > Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: > Thu, 04 Dec 2003 15:10:41 +0100 > To: > John Vera <johnv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Hi John, > > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 01:33, John Vera wrote: > >>Hi and sorry to bother you about my problem, I run a suse 8.2 and >>downloaded the 2.6.0.test9 kernel, when I switch all options on the >>zoran 36120 shows but I can’t se it, I need it since I have the Genius >>Video Wonder pro. Besides I read some things about needing the bt848 >>and phillips tuner saa7110, any idea? >> >>Is there anyway I can be able to mark as module or insert it in the >>kernel? Well thanks anyway and best regards. > > > I'm guessing it has been disabled (at least if you select to disable all > modules that will likely fail to build), since it hasn't been ported to > the new videodev subsystem yet. Yup. > I've posted a patch to do this, but > asked for comments from testers with such a card on whether it works at > all. I don't have such a card myself, so my patch is purely theoretical. > See the LKML archives if you want to try it out yourself. > > Pauline (CC'ed) is the official maintainer of the driver. If it works, > I'd recommend letting her know so she can re-post my patch to LKML and > have it applied to the 2.6 kernel. I doubt whether it will make it in > 2.6.0, but it never hurts to try. > > You don't need the bt848 or anything, as far as I know. I'm CC'ing the > v4l list, too. Other people might be able to give further comments on > this. I really don't know much about it, simply because I've never been > able to try my patch out. There are a couple of issues with Ronald's patch: The ioctl calls now have a wrapper function that copies the parameters to/from userspace. The ioctl code itself, however, also contains code to copy to/from userspace. This apparently was a leftover from the 2.4.x driver. In any case, after I changed that, xawtv can access the driver. It still complains about a bunch of invalid parameters, though (I may have screwed something up, or missed something in the ioctl code.) It also doesn't show anything, it just has a black window. And, the big one: after I exit xawtv, my system (2.6.0-test10 with Andrew Morton's mm1 patches) is hosed (hanging in disk access), and I have to reboot. So I guess the driver still needs more work... -Joe
