Jonathan Coles wrote: > Perhaps I have some other misconfiguration in my system. With the wget > command I must use the --no-proxy option. Otherwise, I get "Error > parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name." Very strange that > port 8080 is assumed when the standard port is 80. > > I couldn't find an equivalent no-proxy option for hg. > > Thanks. Please don't top-post, it's aainst to policy of the mailing list. See below. > > Owen Townend wrote: >> 2008/9/17 Jonathan Coles <jcoles0727@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> >>> Your instructions at http://linuxtv.org/repo/ for obtaining v4l-dvb say >>> to execute: >>> >>> hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb >>> >>> But this returns >>> >>> abort: error: Name or service not known >>> >>> Perhaps there is a mistake in the instructions. >>> >> copy and pasting that line here works fine: >> >> % hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb >> destination directory: v4l-dvb >> requesting all changes >> adding changesets >> ...etc >> >> >>> It seems this checkout step is not really required, as you can download >>> the tarball from a link on the page at the URL. >>> >> One advantage of using mercurial over the tarball is the ability to >> run `hg pull` and `hg update` rather than re download the entire set. >> >> >>> I also find it confusing that you mention dvb-apps, but don't talk about >>> compiling it. Is it needed? Optional? An alternative? >>> >> dvb-apps AFAIK are optional. I have not yet needed them in normal >> operation of a tuner card. >> >> >>> Are there additional steps not presented here? I was unable to get my >>> Hauppage HVR-950 to work on Ubuntu 8.04. Does this package support that >>> device? >>> >> Do you have the firmware for the device as well as the driver? >> >> On the mythtv-users list there was a success story using one of these >> tuners. It details how they got it working before going into issues >> using two of them: >> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/349205?search_string=HVR-950;#349205 >> He was using the mcentral repository, and Edgy but the steps are >> otherwise the same. >> >> Hope this helps, >> cheers, >> Owen. Read this, it will probably help :) http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html - Steve _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
