[linux-dvb] Re: VP-1020

[Jamie Honan <jhonan@optusnet.com.au>]

> How does that sound?  Am I missing any steps?

If this is the first time you have run 2.6 there may be other
issues not to do with DVB. It doesn't sound as though this
is a problem for you.

> Where I'm at right now is if I try "modprobe bttv", it'll hang my system.
> If I follow the instructions in the dvb-kernel's README.bt8xx, I see 
> that I'm supposed to make a little "insmod" script.  So, I copied 
> build-2.4/insmod-bt8xx.sh to insmod-dst.sh, and edited it to select the 
> DST drivers, but when I try to run it with ./insmod-dst.sh start, I get:

I must update the readme. There are slight differences between 2.4
and 2.6.

> Inserting DVB modules into kernelinsmod: can't read 'videodev.o': No 
> such file or directory
> insmod: can't read 'bttv.o': No such file or directory

In 2.6 kernel modules have a .ko suffix.

As Brad has written, I usually use modprobe as in

modprobe bttv card=0x68

> Do I need to be in the /usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test9/... directory tree to 
> run this script?  Am I missing something?

Very close. Your driver is about to work :)

Jamie


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