Am Sat, 17 Sep 2005 09:25:04 -0400 schrieb Michael Krufky
<mkrufky@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> tim0m1a wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> What a sad story..... This is a v4l issue, cc added.
>>>
>>> I appreciate that you have gotten your card working, but this isn't
>>> really a solution to the problem. In fact, seeing something like
>>> this makes me want to fix the problem the right way, but my hands are
>>> tied on this, as I do not know the cause of the problem, or exactly
>>> what patches you had to revert in order to fix it, nor do I have the
>>> hardware to test this on.
>>>
>>> I can take a closer look at this over the weekend, but it would be a
>>> great service if you could actually go through the cvs and figure out
>>> exactly what patch breaks support for your card. If you cannot do
>>> that, then if you could at least try to get the absolute very latest
>>> cvs where your card still works.... For example:
>>>
>>> You can do cvs checkout -D {date} to specify that cvs should
>>> checkout all cvs code where commits are no later than {date} ... If
>>> you can identify the FIRST date where cvs is broken for your card,
>>> that can help us to identify exactly which patch is the culprit here.
>>>
>>> The RIGHT thing to do would be to use this information to apply a new
>>> patch to cvs that will restore full functionality of your board,
>>> without causing any other regressions.
>> [...]
>> So far so good...
>> I installed different CVS-Versions now. Since I installed 2005/07/14,
>> the Pinnacle 300i does not run anymore. The following files were
>> changed in the 2005/07/14-Snapshot:
>
> Ah! On July 15th, we removed all of the dvb frontend code from
> video4linux cvs. Since then, I've created tree-merging scripts that
> allow you to download the latest copy of both cvs trees, and build
> complete drivers from the merged tree.
>
> MT352 is among the drivers that have been removed from video4linux cvs.
> I take it that you have not yet tried the tree-merging scripts on the
> latest cvs. Please try the method outlined in this howto:
>
> http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/How_to_build_from_CVS
>
> This should fix the problem for you. If so, please change your
> gentoo-wiki-entry to reflect this method.
>
I am not able to install v4l with frontends the way described in your
wiki-entry because the merge-trees.sh script is missing in the latest
CVS-Version I downloaded.
So I will have to try an older snapshot version.
Regards,
Tim
