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1.8       holger      1: Instructions for building the standalone driver:
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1.1       hunold      3: 
1.9.2.1 ! holger      4: Just type 'make' to build the driver. The compiled modules will be located
1.8       holger      5: in directory ./build-2.4/ or ./build-2.6, depening on the kernel version you
                      6: are running. There you will also find scripts to load and unload the modules.
                      7: 
                      8: For some cards you need to download additional firmware binaries.  You get
                      9: notified in the build process or when loading the modules, please follow the
                     10: instructions there if you own one of the cards that need a firmware to run.
                     11: 
1.9.2.1 ! holger     12: Be sure that you are root for the following steps.
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1.8       holger     14: Now execute the ./MAKEDEV-DVB.sh script to create the DVB API device nodes.
1.9.2.1 ! holger     15: 
        !            16: In ./build-2.4/ or ./build-2.6/ you find the insmod script.
        !            17: 
1.9       holger     18: Use './insmod.sh load' to load the driver modules, './insmod.sh unload' to 
                     19: remove them. './insmod debug' loads the drivers with debugging enabled. 
1.9.2.1 ! holger     20: These scripts load all drivers for all cards but the ones based on the bt8xx
        !            21: and the DEC2000-T, DEC2540-T and DEC3000-S USB boxes.
        !            22: 
        !            23: For bt8xx based cards please use the insmod-bt8xx.sh script, for the DEC USB 
        !            24: boxes 'insmod dvb-core.o ttusb_dec.o'.
        !            25: 
        !            26: Now check the klog and syslog (in doubt type 'dmesg') for errors messages.
1.9       holger     27: 
1.8       holger     28: When you reached this point successfully you probably want to start some
                     29: test applications, download the linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1.tar.gz package, unpack
                     30: it and compile it. This package contains some tools to test and debug the
                     31: driver:
                     32: 
1.9       holger     33: linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1/apps/szap/ contains three simple applications called 
                     34: szap, czap and tzap for zapping with DVB-S, DVB-C or DVB-T cards.
                     35: Read linuxtv-dvb-apps-1.1/apps/szap/ README for usage instructions.
1.8       holger     36: 
                     37: Note 1: tuning succeeded if you see the FE_HAS_LOCK flag and "status 1f"; a
                     38: good signal has a low bit error rate (ber) and zero uncorrectable packets (unc).
                     39: 
                     40: Note 2: you must keep ?zap running, or the frontend will go to sleep (unless
                     41: you load dvb-core.o with dvb_shutdown_timeout=0)
                     42: 
                     43: If your card has a hardware MPEG decoder you can watch TV with xawtv (together
                     44: with e.g. szap for DVB tuning); Note: xawtv cannot control the DVB tuner, you
                     45: must use ?zap
                     46: 
                     47: For cards without hardware MPEG decoder you need a software MPEG decoder, 
                     48: e.g. mplayer or xine (you need *very* recent versions which understand MPEG2 
                     49: transport streams; xine v0.9.21 and mplayer dev-CVS-030723-16:39-3.3.1 seem to 
                     50: work); Note: You must run ?zap with the -r flag to enable stream output to the 
                     51: dvr device, and keep it running while watching tv.  
                     52: 
                     53: Examples: 
                     54:        mplayer - < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 
                     55:        xine stdin://mpeg2 < /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
                     56:        
                     57: Note: Newest mplayer and xine versions are reported to have builtin DVB support
1.9       holger     58: (see ./linux/Documentation/dvb/faq.txt for more info).
1.8       holger     59: 
                     60: For 'real' everyday use you probably don't want to use these test applications 
1.9       holger     61: but install a program like VDR or MythTV.
                     62: (Read ./linux/Documentation/dvb/faq.txt for some links)
1.8       holger     63: 
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                     65: 
                     66: The build system has been tested down to 2.4.20, if you run an older kernel
                     67: either update your kernel or just try - maybe you need to add some tweaks in
                     68: the dvb_compat.[hc] files. Please report your modifications on the linux-dvb 
                     69: mailing list.
                     70: 
                     71: If you want to build a not-standalone driver but want to patch your 2.6 kernel
                     72: source tree with this driver please read README-2.6.
                     73: 
                     74: More documentation is located in ./linux/Documentation/dvb/.
                     75: 
                     76: good luck,
                     77: 
                     78: Holger
1.7       hunold     79: