On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Lavoie.S wrote: > flexcop skystar-usb in macintosh G4 ppc, any hope ? could be supported in > next cvs releases of dvb-kernel driver ? Should i give-up... As I said, I don't have a real idea how to fix it easily, without changing large portions of the driver, for which I don't have the time currently. > In answer to your last mail, i can tell you that : > > 1- yes, the mac address in "/var/log/messages" is the correct one; > > > 2- No, unfortunately i didn't get any improvement by replacing in "DVB/ > build-2.6/flexcop-reg.h" the line #include "flexcop_ibi_value_be.h" with > #include "flexcop_ibi_value_le.h". > > As you didn't specify it and i didn't know what i was doing, i tried first to > make the change before compiling the driver, so i removed the old > /usr/src/dvb-kernel/ dir replaced it with a fresh new one then : > > # cd /usr/local/src/DVB So /usr/local/src/DVB is a fresh dvb-kernel checkout, because you are talking about /usr/src/dvb-kernel/ above. > # ./makelinks /usr/src/linux When you compile and load it in build-2.6 you don't need to run makelinks. This is just for linking dvb-kernel into the kernel. > # cd DVB/build-2.6 > then i edited the file flexcop-reg.h > # make > # ./insmod.sh load Correct. Compiling first is correct. > pluged the device...no improvement That is strange. I would have expected it working after that change. Are you really sure that you load the correct modules? > 3- Also, i tried to use the kernel DVB drivers instead of the CVS linuxTV > ones so, i recompiled my custom 2.6.13-rc5 kernel with B2C2 drivers > configured as modules, restarted the computer, then : > > # modprobe b2c2-flexcop-usb > modules loaded correctly without any problem. > I pluged the device...i got nearly the same messages as before except from > one or two line(s) : > > Aug 18 17:10:18 localhost kernel: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space - > usevmalloc=<size> to increase size. > Aug 18 17:10:18 localhost kernel: b2c2-flexcop: dvb_dmx failed: error -12 You are mixing up kernel modules and dvb-kernel modules now. Don't do that. regards, Patrick. -- Mail: patrick.boettcher@xxxxxxx WWW: http://www.wi-bw.tfh-wildau.de/~pboettch/
