[linux-dvb] Re: AverMedia 771 DVB-T Registering frontend problem

[Mike Ryan <mike.ryan@redmar.com>]

Hold on, I just RTFM'ed (as you suggested) and found this section:

3. make

  Note #1: Since the dvb-bt8xx and dst drivers now depend on a
  snapshot of the v4l drivers, they are not built by default.
  To build these modules do this instead: make BTTV=1
  For detailed instructions for bttv based cards, see README.bt8xx

I'll do that now

Cheers

Mike

Quoting Mike Ryan <mike.ryan@redmar.com>:

 Chris

 Thanks for that. I can see that the file I'm loading is:
 [root@linuxpvr build-2.6]# ll
 /lib/modules/2.6.8-1.521/kernel/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.ko
 -rwxr--r--  1 root root 9796 Aug 16 14:55

 However, I had downloaded the latest cvs, but it doesn't seem to build the
 dvb-bt8xx module file:
 [root@linuxpvr build-2.6]# pwd
 /root/dvb-kernel/build-2.6
 [root@linuxpvr build-2.6]# ll *dvb-bt8xx*
 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 44 Oct 16 12:11 dvb-bt8xx.c ->
 ../linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c
 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 44 Oct 16 12:11 dvb-bt8xx.h ->
 ../linux/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.h
 [root@linuxpvr build-2.6]#

 Do I need to compile this seperately or something?

 Thanks in advance

 Mike


 Quoting Christopher Pascoe <c.pascoe@itee.uq.edu.au>:

  > Thanks for that - no luck unfortunately. It appears that the frontend
  > registration just doesn't seem to be happening with the modules I have.
  Could
  > it be I have a new type of card that's not in the code - see the unknown
  card
  > 7b message below

  Yes, the card you have isn't in the code you are running.  I guess you are
  using the current 1.1.1 release code, not the dvb-kernel CVS.  The last
  release was made before the 771 was around.

  > modprobe dvb-bt8xx
  >
  > Oct 17 09:15:43 linuxpvr kernel: dvb_bt8xx_init: unknown card_id found
  7711461
  > Oct 17 09:15:43 linuxpvr kernel: dvb_bt8xx_init: unknown card_type found
 7B,
  NOT
  > LOADED
  > Oct 17 09:15:43 linuxpvr kernel: dvb_bt8xx_init: unknown card_nr found 0
  > Oct 17 09:15:43 linuxpvr kernel: attach: checking "bt878 #0 [hw]"
  > Oct 17 09:15:43 linuxpvr kernel: find by pci: checking "bt878 #0 [hw]"

  These messages are gone in the current code - I thought they looked
  strange - which also has support for the AverMedia 771 in it.

  To fetch the current CVS code, follow the instructions at
  http://www.linuxtv.org/cvs/ .  The module name you want to retrieve is
  "dvb-kernel".  Fetch this and read the instructions in the top level
  README on how to build it (there is a note about building for BTTV based
  cards in there).

  Alternatively, you can fetch and build the current kernel (2.6.9-rc4 or
  higher), which should have support in it for the 771 out of the box.

  Regards,
  Chris




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