Do you know a good reference on how to extract the firmware from windows drivers? Thanx :) Jesper 2008/1/22, John Drescher <drescherjm@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: John Drescher <drescherjm@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Jan 22, 2008 4:48 PM > Subject: Re: How can I ever succeed using DVB-T on Gentoo Linux? > To: Jesper Taxbøl <jesper@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > On Jan 22, 2008 4:23 PM, Jesper Taxbøl <jesper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi John, > > > > I assume you mean v4l-dvb-hg. > > > > Yes. I am briefly using it with a kworld-115 on amd64 and all is well. I > also use this to get the latest ivtv driver for my pvr150. The nice thing > here this is kernel independent so this allows me more freedom than what the > in kernel versions do. > > > > > > Thanx for the hint, but I already tried that one without success on > > system. I once nearly got a Nova-T USB stick working(noisy) for a > > while using that. But I needed to find the source and add the USB ID > > in the driver. > > > > It is possible to add a patch to the ebuild (in your own overlay) so you can > make this automatic. This is not a beginner step but I have done that quite > a few times with gentoo. > > > > > > By the way can you emerge the media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-firmware ebuild? It > > always fails to download, and I assume it is intended for the > > v4l-dvb-hg ebuild. > > > > For my card I had a little trouble but it was not at the download step. My > problem was that I could tune but got no watchable signal on any channel > until I painstakingly spent hours debugging and I finally was able to > extract the firmware from my cards windows driver and then using that it > worked. After that I replaced the linuxtv-dvb-firmware and it still works. I > am confused. > > John > > > > -- > John M. Drescher > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
