On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Jordi Moles Blanco wrote: > would you mind telling me what linux system are you working with? i'm > desperate for this to work, i will change to any distro that makes > diseqc work. If you are willing to get your hands dirty with kernel source and possibly a source-control system, then you may be able to get a working system, without the need to change distributions -- maybe. The drawback to the convenience of packaged distributions is that they are frozen at a particular point in time, which can lock you out of improvements. That's one of the tradeoffs for the convenience about not having to worry about these things, which is great, when it works. The linux-dvb source should be self-contained for all that you need to get your device working. (But not always...) So, the easiest way would be for you to build the linux-dvb source as modules against your present kernel version, whatever that may be. This will also allow you to go back in time, should your device fail to work with the latest source, and go back to the point where it did work -- and thereby help the developers to get the latest source to work again. Anyway, you will need to update/download... the sources for the kernel you are using the latest linux-dvb source or tarball The latter can be found at http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.bz2 or, slightly larger, http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb/archive/tip.tar.gz This is the latest source; if you look around the linuxtv.org site, you will also see a way to download the entire history of the source which will help you go back in time -- such as I've done today in order to try to see if my production 2.6.14-ish machine can use the last useable release without problems. Are you comfortable working with the command line? I hope so, because that's exclusively what I use. When you've downloaded one of the above archives, you'll need to extract it into a suitable playground, perhaps like % cd ~/ % mkdir src % cd src % tar z(or j or y)xvf ~/tip.tar.(whatever) % cd (whatever-has-been-created) % make This expects you to have downloaded the source for your kernel as well -- if you're unsure of how to get this, someone familiar with your distribution should be able to help, if there isn't anything on the wiki to give details of building this. If you don't have the proper kernel source, your attempt to `make' will fail with lots of complaints. If you do have the source, it's also possible your attempted `make' will fail, and probably someone here or elsewhere can help fix what's needed (if the source is not found where it is expected, for example) If all goes will, you will have the very latest kernel modules that support your device, and can try them, to see if they work, or if there are still problems. barry bouwsma _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
