On 1/3/06, Gregoire Favre <gregoire.favre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 02:07:09PM +0100, Oliver Endriss wrote: > > > Hm - xine? The av7110 driver is for full-featured cards. > > It's not xine who crash : it's the driver, which in turn make VDR > crash... which just happen more often is VDR is used with the > xine-plugin. > > > The patch will not reduce the number of crashes but it should improve > > recovery from a crash... > > OK, I was too enthousiasm... > > > My way[tm]: > > I prefer to test multiple driver versions or cvs snapshots without > > overwriting the modules in /lib/modules/... > > > > So I _never_ use 'make install'. My way[tm]: > > - cd v4l-dvb/v4l > > - make > > - load driver using 'make insmod' or some other script... > > > > You may edit insmod.sh to load only the modules you need. > > Or use a script of your own. > > I would personaly highly prefer just to be able to compil my kernel and > boot from it whithout having to worry about to still compil anything > else. > > BUT : I must agree your way is also good, and I will certainly try it > with the just released 2.6.15 :) (I have already asked here but didn't > get an answer : the make in v4l-dvb/v4l will install for /usr/src/linux > version or for uname -r version ? It will install to the uname -r version, and only AFTER running "make distclean" ... Versioning info is stored in the .version file, which is cleared by "make distclean". _Mike
