Hi, On 8/10/07, Andrew Junev <a-j@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello All, > > I want to report my AverMedia M116 works just great with this driver! > I have a PIII-1GHz system running Fedora Core 6 which is mostly being > used as a HTPC (MythTV). All I needed was the driver: > > http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb-xc > > and the tuner module: > > http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/userspace-tuner/ > > Ok, I also had some problems setting it up due to my poor knowledge of > Linux. But Markus helped me a lot with the installation and now > everything works just great! > the ivtv-xc repository needed some tweaks.. after installing the userspace tuner libraries I had to apply following patch to the named ivtv repository: http://mcentral.de/~mrec/patches/ivtv-userspace-tuner.diff diff -r 2bf2ec67c858 linux/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c --- a/linux/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c Tue Aug 07 11:26:17 2007 +0200 +++ b/linux/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c Fri Aug 10 21:31:37 2007 +0200 @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ #include <media/saa7115.h> #include <media/v4l2-chip-ident.h> #ifdef HAVE_XC2028 -#include "tuner/tuner-stub.h" +#include <linux/tuner-stub.h> #endif /* var to keep track of the number of array elements in use */ @@ -834,7 +834,6 @@ static void ivtv_load_and_init_modules(s memset(&config, 0, sizeof(config)); config.tunerid = 1; - config.clientid = -1; itv->tunerid = tuner_register_client(&itv->i2c_adap, ivtv_reset_tuner_gpio, itv, &config); #else diff -r 2bf2ec67c858 linux/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-i2c.c --- a/linux/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-i2c.c Tue Aug 07 11:26:17 2007 +0200 +++ b/linux/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-i2c.c Fri Aug 10 21:32:26 2007 +0200 @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ #include <media/ir-kbd-i2c.h> #ifdef HAVE_XC2028 -#include "tuner/tuner-stub.h" +#include <linux/tuner-stub.h> #endif /* i2c implementation for cx23415/6 chip, ivtv project. this repository contains Hans' code and the additional patch to support the userspace tuner library. http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/v4l-dvb-xc/ Markus > I also use it in MythTV without any problems. It has even detected all > the channels during automatic channel search (to be honest, I didn't > expect that at all). And it has all the support for SECAM (which is > the TV standard for my area). > > So I want to thank Markus and Hans for this great software. Hope it > will work for the others as good as it works for me! > > -- > Best regards, > Andrew mailto:a-j@xxxxxx > > > Friday, August 10, 2007, 9:05:40 PM, you wrote: > > > From: Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 17:19:52 +0200 > > Subject: V4L/DVB Tuner API for analogue TV and digital TV devices > > To: linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx, video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > Hi, > > > as announced earlier already I started with another API which is > > independent of any API core changes to support devices which use the > > dvb-core framework for digital TV and the analogue TV framework for > > analogue TV. > > > The newer API consists of a kernelmodule and a usersland daemon which > > automatically loads the tuner modules which are implemented as shared > > libraries. > > > The kernelmodule provides a node /dev/tuner where the usersland daemon > > attaches and receives its control commands from kernelspace. The > > mechanism behind that is similar to the udev mechanism. The userspace > > daemon runs select() on the interface and the kernelmodule wakes the > > daemon up if something is requested. > > The daemon receives control commands like loading a specific tuner module. > > As soon as such a call comes in the daemon looks at a list if the > > requested tuner driver is available and forks itself and registers > > (opens a new filehandle) the requested module at /dev/tuner. > > If the requested module is not found it submits that result back to > > kernelspace and attaching the requested tuner fails. > > > Currently there's one module (xc3028) ported to userspace and tested > > with TV and DVB-T (radio is in progress). > > > The kernelmodule is licensed under GPL, the userspace daemon including > > the userspace driver are dual licensed BSD/GPL since the usespace > > tuner module is intended to be reused with other operating systems. > > > The current project site (which includes a link to the sources): > > http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php/Userspace_tuner > > > There's also a description how to use that API with existing devices, > > drivers need a very small modification to get them work with that API. > > > Feel free to ask some questions about it and/or even to review the > > code and comment it. > > > Markus > > > > > -- Markus Rechberger _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
