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On Monday 29 September 2008, Jon Hardcastle wrote: |
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> Hi, i have spent the weekend trying to get my new Hauppage USB tv stick to |
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> work under linux. |
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> I have been constantly perplexed by references to compilable kernel modules |
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> I couldn't see! I assumed it was because they referred to old modules or |
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> something. |
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> But having downloaded and booted into Knoppix and run make menuconfig on |
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> that i have confirmed that kernel seems to have 10's of TV card chipset |
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> drivers availible to compile whereas gentoo-sources/vanilla-sources emerged |
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> on my machine have maybe 2 or 3. |
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> Can someone offer me some assistance as to why this might be? |
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> Thank you |
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> (This is my first mailing list post - please be gentle!) |
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> N: Jon Hardcastle |
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> E: Jon@×××××××××××.com |
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> 'The writing is on the wall...' |
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because a large part of the dvb/tv drivers are developed outside of the main |
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kernel tree. Also a large part is hidden under experimental. |
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For my dvb-t stick I need to checkout a mercurial rep and do a make, make |
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install in it do get drivers that work. And with 'work' I mean: no sound on |
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first try, but after disconnecting the stick and reconnecting it, it suddenly |
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works. |
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